Pre-departure small teams

Students will self-select into learning project groups for your course work.

Project-Learning Team Work (required)

1. Working in small groups, you will do some important and required project planning connected to our stay at the Sri Ram Ashram.
2. These practical learning projects are connected to your course work; we will begin with some blue-sky activities in November of 2023 and continue blue-skying in early 2024.
3. You can read more about community service learning projects, here.
4. To review past group service-learning projects, go to our website where they have all been uploaded.

Pre-departure Team Work (voluntary)

1. We are committed to showing up as awesome guests. To that end, we will ask you if you’re interested in volunteering some time for the following activities:

• form strong bonds with one another
• strategize and raise money for gifts we wish to take to our partners (we had a very successful SteepedTea fundraiser in 2016, a pub-fundraiser in 2018)
• collect some strategically gathered items/gifts for the ashram (can’t be too heavy given freight charges, etc)
• design a 2024 t-shirt for all travelers!
• design thank you cards for distribution to people who help us along the way (note: photographer and former MRU staff person Kerri Martin might be willing to donate or discount some imagery for thank you cards; her website is http://kerrimartinphotography.com)