Learn by Doing

Experiential learning

There are many ways to learn, but we have found that when you smell the chemicals in a Mexican factory or literally dig in with a Gulf Coast partner, the experience is deeper, richer, even profound. With this transformative quality in mind, UUSC provides two unique opportunities for experiential learning: JustWorks camps and JustJourneys.

JustJourneys

Far from tourism, JustJourneys are hands-on educational travel experiences that focus on human-rights and social-justice issues. The program, which grew out of UUSC's fact-finding missions to Central America in the 1980s, introduces participants to UUSC partners and other human-rights defenders, who are on the frontlines of confronting unjust power structures. Past JustJourneys have explored reconciliation in Guatemala, fair trade in the United States and around the world, indigenous communities and the right to water, and economic justice and women's labor rights in Mexico.

» Reserve your place today on UUSC's next JustJourney!

JustWorks camps

JustWorks camps are short-term (usually one-week) projects that help volunteers examine and understand the root causes and damaging effects of injustice. Participants work directly with people in the community who have identified a problem and are working towards a positive solution. Past JustWorks participants have helped to gut flood-damaged houses on the Gulf Coast, pick coffee beans on a worker-led farm in Guatemala, and build a fence surrounding sacred Native American burial grounds in Oklahoma.

» Join us at our next JustWorks camp!