1. Print off and fill in the application form, and pass on the reference forms to your referees. Click here for PDF documents.
2. Contact your referees. Ask your pastor or church leader to complete and return to us one reference form. The other should be completed and returned to us by a work supervisor or tutor. We need these returned to us before we can offer you a place.
3. Send in the application form together with two passport photos, a black and white photocopy of the photo page from your passport and a £50 deposit (Non refundable). Please make cheques payable to Tearfund. Applications are open for our 2009 programme. Click here for more information about opportunities for 2009.
5. Once the selection/interview event has been held, we will contact you to say whether we can offer you a place on the programme (this is provisional and subject to orientation and also medical clearance).
Once you have accepted this provisional place you will be invited to an orientation/training week for the team you are provisionally placed on. This event acts as a final selection process and also a chance for you to explore over the week if this thing is really for you.
At the orientation we will give you a detailed preparation pack, telling you all you need to know and do to get ready to go.
6. To confirm your place on the programme, you need to send us a further deposit of £800 (again this is non-refundable) after the orientation to pay for your incountry costs as well as the orientation you've just had among other things. You must tell us if you decide not to travel.
7. Do everything required in order to get ready (checklist and dates given in Preparation Pack).
8. Pay the balance of your trip one month prior to departure.
9. Change lives: yours and other people's.
Click here for Application documents.