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Keeping safe and healthy

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Make sure you travel safely
If you’re travelling overseas, it’s important to keep yourself safe and well.

If you’re taking members of your church with you – especially if they are not experienced travellers – good advice can help prevent the trip being spoilt.


Health tips
Vaccinations, health tips and food and drink. More >>
Safety tips
Assessing risks, photography and travel safety. More >>
Child protection
In your relationship with an overseas church you need to make sure that child protection measures are in place. More >>

Please note: These tips are just that – they’re not intended to be a complete and comprehensive guide. Whatever plans you have in mind, you should seek proper advice from professional experts. Our aim here is simply to give you some food for thought based on our own experience.

About Tearfund: We are Christians passionate about the local church bringing justice and transforming lives - overcoming global poverty.
So our ten-year vision is to see 50 million people released from material and spiritual poverty through a worldwide network of 100,000 local churches.

Tearfund is a registered charity No. 265464 (England and Wales) No. SC037624 (Scotland)     Email: churches@tearfund.org
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