BuildaBridge forms alliances with organizations around the world.  Our goal is to build the capacity of the local organization through sustainable projects, including direct service and training.  We invite people with creative gifts to participate in our mission to bring hope and healing to the most vulnerable in the toughest places of the world.  Our trips are part of our overall arts relief and development goals. BuildaBridge engages artists who have the desire to serve vulnerable populations by using their gifts as tools for education, empowerment, hope and healing. BuildaBridge connects artists with organizations that wish to integrate arts in their already existing programs. Artists are trained with the basic skills to work with vulnerable populations.  This includes working with at-risk children and families, curriculum writing, cross-cultural skills, and more. Our foundation is the BuildaBridge Classroom Model that is child-centered, hope-infused, and trauma informed.

The following qualifications are essential as you consider serving with BuildaBridge:

1. Ability to deal with difficult environments
2. Creativity in working with a scarcity of artistic resources
3. Attending training (on-ground and/or online) in basic hope strategies, the BuildaBridge Classroom Model, lesson planning, basic community development, cross-cultural orientation and crisis management
4. Ability to raise funds and pay own expenses as a volunteer
5. Second language skills, while not required, are a plus
6. Experience in the creative arts: drama (Theater of the Oppressed training a plus), storytelling, visual arts, music (drumming a plus), mural making, movement (all forms), culinary, photography and more.
7. Creative Art Therapists should expect non-clinical community contexts