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Uganda (60 Feet)- January 2012
Saturday, January 14th, 2012 – Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 · 12:00am (add to calendar)
THIS TRIP IS CLOSED.
Dates: January 14-22, 2012
Leaders: Dan Owens, Sixty Feet Board Member, and Jared Morrison
Location: Uganda
Cost: $3000 - $3250 (cost is dependent on airfare rates and departure airport)
Details: This trip will partner with Sixty Feet. We prefer applicants for this trip be experienced mission trip members as this trip will be more difficult emotionally and spiritually than other trips. Government facilities called “remand centers” exist throughout the continent of Africa. These facilities were created for children who have committed a crime. The homes are overcrowded and horribly underfunded. The living conditions are shocking. The worst part is this – the vast majority of the children in these facilities have not committed any crime. Mostly, they are children who are simply unwanted. SixtyFeet was created to bring hope and healing to these children through the love of Jesus Christ.
Traveling to Uganda with SixtyFeet is not your average short term missions experience. Our mission trips are not project oriented but people oriented. We seek to provide our teams with opportunities to learn about and experience the culture and the mission field in which we serve. We desire for our trips to be relational in nature and consistent with the long term mission work of SixtyFeet. While in Uganda, the team will visit four of the remand centers that SixtyFeet serves. You will spend one or two days at each of the three facilities in Kampala, including a prison for small abandoned or orphaned children. The team will also travel to Mbale to serve the remand center there.