Serving together to reach your campus and the toughest places
Today college students value serving the world around them. They seek hands-on, relevant opportunities to impact the lives of others. Our involvement with Cru® campus ministry and international field staff members positions Unto® to help you build your campus movement and reach more students.
We accomplish this through the provision of international and on-campus opportunities focused on helping students express the kindness of Jesus in the toughest places on earth by relieving suffering, restoring dignity, and revealing hope.
How will your campus connect with Unto?
Your campus can get involved with Unto when students are on campus throughout the academic year or off campus over summer or spring break. The Unto campus team offers opportunities that are specifically designed with students in mind by applying their studies on an international humanitarian trip or serving at an on-campus outreach event.
Summer Missions
Students can use their majors on mission during a hands-on, humanitarian experience.
On-Campus Events
Unto events can help you reach more students by providing opportunities to serve.
Spring Break
Students can participate in short-term national and international humanitarian trips.
Summer Mission
Unto Summer Missions help you reach your campus by providing students with a hands-on, humanitarian experience. Each Summer Missions opportunity is designed so that students can apply their studies in areas like agriculture, natural sciences, nursing, public health, and more in a humanitarian context. Students will work alongside Unto and international Cru ministries as they use their majors on mission to express the kindness of Jesus in the toughest places.
May 2026
Southeast Asia
Summer Mission Southeast Asia (Students Only)
Team Leader: Scott
Cost: TBA
On Campus Outreach Events
Unto’s on-campus outreach events help your campus organization reach more students by providing opportunities to express the kindness of Jesus in their own campus community and around the world. On-campus events are designed to help you build your movement by engaging students, staff, and faculty on your campus. Your campus can host an event such as a:
Students will learn how to restore dignity and reveal hope to the refugee neighbor in their community.
Students will help restore the dignity of women in the toughest places on earth by making LuoPads that are provided to women during women’s health workshops.
Students will help students in the toughest places by collecting school supplies and hosting a packing event.
Students will participate in an interactive event where they will experience the realities of people in the toughest places who walk miles each day for water.
Students will experience the life of families in the toughest places on earth through an interactive simulation that illustrates the daily challenges of buying food, fetching water, and caring for children.
Spring Break
Unto Spring Break trips help your campus reach more students by providing them with flexible opportunities to gain hands-on, humanitarian experience. Students can participate in short-term national and international trips that focus on one of our initiatives like disaster relief, refugee care, critical aid, and more. Students will interact with other Cru ministries as they apply their majors on mission and use their passions to express the kindness of Jesus.
March 2026
Guatemala
Spring Break Guatemala Vision Clinic (Students Only)
Team Leader: Scott
Cost: TBA
During the 10th century, a complex network of trade routes turned Mayan cities into commercial and spiritual hubs. Guatemala still has that mystique today in historic cities like Antigua. However, in the capital, Guatemala City, the effects of the 36-year-long civil war (1960-1996) still can be felt, causing Guatemala to be one of the poorest countries in Central America.
Be part of an Unto® volunteer trip that helps relieve suffering by providing eyeglasses to many with impaired vision.
The team will conduct eyeglass clinics in the city, as well as in nearby rural areas. During the clinics, as you meet with individuals to provide basic vision testing and needed glasses, you will be able to demonstrate the kindness of Jesus. You also will have the opportunity to talk with students at the local university campus to share the hope of the gospel.
No experience is required. At the beginning of the trip, participants will receive training for vision testing and fitting eyeglasses.
This trip is for college students only.
March 2026
El Salvador
Spring Break El Salvador Vision Clinics (Destino)
Team Leader: Wes
Cost: TBA
El Salvador — a land of beautiful beaches, sprawling coffee plantations, and lush rainforests — is the most densely populated country in Central America, with 40 percent of its population living in poverty. Be part of a Unto® volunteer trip that helps relieve suffering by providing eyeglasses to many with impaired vision.
As a student on this trip, you will travel to the nation’s capital, San Salvador. The team will conduct eyeglass clinics in the city as well as in nearby rural areas. In the clinics you will meet with individuals to provide glasses and demonstrate the kindness of Jesus. You also will have the opportunity to talk with students at the local university campus to share the hope of Jesus.
No experience is required. Trip participants will receive training for eyeglass fittings at the beginning of the trip.
Students only. This trip can accommodate a maximum of 15 people.
Upcoming Student Trips
Unto volunteer humanitarian teams work with partners in countries across the globe to serve those in need and express the kindness of Jesus. Students can take part in transforming lives through a dynamic, hands-on humanitarian trip designed specifically with them in mind.
March 2026
Guatemala
Spring Break Guatemala Vision Clinic (Students Only)
Team Leader: Scott
Cost: TBA
During the 10th century, a complex network of trade routes turned Mayan cities into commercial and spiritual hubs. Guatemala still has that mystique today in historic cities like Antigua. However, in the capital, Guatemala City, the effects of the 36-year-long civil war (1960-1996) still can be felt, causing Guatemala to be one of the poorest countries in Central America.
Be part of an Unto® volunteer trip that helps relieve suffering by providing eyeglasses to many with impaired vision.
The team will conduct eyeglass clinics in the city, as well as in nearby rural areas. During the clinics, as you meet with individuals to provide basic vision testing and needed glasses, you will be able to demonstrate the kindness of Jesus. You also will have the opportunity to talk with students at the local university campus to share the hope of the gospel.
No experience is required. At the beginning of the trip, participants will receive training for vision testing and fitting eyeglasses.
This trip is for college students only.
March 2026
Cuba
Spring Break Cuba Water filter (Students Only)
Team Leader: Haley
Cost: TBD
In Cuba, a significant portion of the population lacks access to a stable and reliable supply of clean drinking water. Many families have to spend precious income to purchase clean water from trucks or use water sources that contain harmful bacteria that can make them sick.
You can help with this need by joining an Unto® water filter trip to Cuba. Through the trip, you will help distribute water filters to families in need, as well as participate in teaching basic hygiene training such as handwashing techniques. The water filters provided remove 99.99999% of the harmful bacteria and viruses that can be found in water sources. You also will work alongside Unto partners, helping them expand their ministry through serving those in need.
Your participation will directly impact communities by providing essential water filtration systems, reducing the risk of disease, and promoting better health practices. Together, we can help express the kindness of Jesus through relieving suffering, restoring dignity, and revealing hope.
No previous experience with water filters or public health is required.
March 2026
El Salvador
Spring Break El Salvador Vision Clinics (Destino)
Team Leader: Wes
Cost: TBA
El Salvador — a land of beautiful beaches, sprawling coffee plantations, and lush rainforests — is the most densely populated country in Central America, with 40 percent of its population living in poverty. Be part of a Unto® volunteer trip that helps relieve suffering by providing eyeglasses to many with impaired vision.
As a student on this trip, you will travel to the nation’s capital, San Salvador. The team will conduct eyeglass clinics in the city as well as in nearby rural areas. In the clinics you will meet with individuals to provide glasses and demonstrate the kindness of Jesus. You also will have the opportunity to talk with students at the local university campus to share the hope of Jesus.
No experience is required. Trip participants will receive training for eyeglass fittings at the beginning of the trip.
Students only. This trip can accommodate a maximum of 15 people.