Team members are encouraged to use free time to visit local sites, go shopping, and otherwise experience the local culture. However, in the interest of personal safety, team members are strongly encouraged to do these activities in groups rather than alone.
7.0 Room Arrangements
Our trip costs are established based on two team members sharing a room. Unmarried team members will share a room with another team member of the same gender. You should expect to share a room unless you specifically request otherwise and pay the additional cost for the request. Since we are a Christian organization, we do not permit team members of the opposite sex to share rooms together unless they are legally married or a parent sharing the room with their own child.
8.0 Proselytizing
Many countries that we visit forbid proselytizing or evangelizing by foreigners. This does not mean that we are forbidden from witnessing to anyone who asks us about why we believe as we do. As a result, we rely heavily on our Christian hosts in these countries to do any overt outreach activities because they are allowed to do so. HHH will inform team members on each project what is and what is not allowed for us in that culture. We do not require anyone to witness who is uncomfortable in so doing.
9.0 Local Laws
HHH expects all project team members to observe, submit to, and obey all local laws and legally constituted authorities.
10.0 Team Leader Authority
The team leader is a volunteer or an HHH staff member acting on behalf of HHH while the mission team is deployed. Before receiving an assignment as a team leader, the volunteer leader has been a team member on at least two separate HHH trips, one of which is used as field training for setting up a clinic site, managing the budget, and other tasks required of a team leader. Additionally, the volunteer has attended a six-hour classroom-style training session at the HHH office. Team leaders are charged with ensuring the safety of the team as well as ensuring that the mission is accomplished according to HHH standards (which includes the standards outlined in this Project Behavior Code), and in accordance with the pre-arranged desires of the local host. Team members are expected to submit to the authority of the team leader while in-country. Team leaders are the final authority when it comes to decisions involving the welfare of the team or the success of the mission. Such decisions include, but are not limited to, changing hotels or other housing sites, committing the team to other activities not already on the
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