Human Needs and Global Resources

Why Pursue Human Needs and Global Resources?

Established in 1976, Human Needs and Global Resources (HNGR) is an academic certificate program that integrates multidisciplinary coursework, a six-month internship, and whole-person formation through experiential learning.  Students live, work, worship, and serve with local communities worldwide, while accompanying host partner organizations that confront poverty, challenge inequity, transform conflict, pursue justice, and seek fullness of life.  The program cultivates a life-orienting commitment to justice, intercultural humility, compassion, hospitality, environmental health, and peacemaking, as actively reflected in lifestyle and vocation.    

330+
Host Organizations
74
Different Countries
72%
Of Alumni with Post-Graduate Degrees

Why Pursue Human Needs and Global Resources at Wheaton?

Because we have a group of 25-30 each year, we are able to identify and tailor internships according to students’ academic, personal, and professional desires. Of course, there is no ideal or perfect internship, but we do our best.

Interns are placed through an intentional discernment process that seeks to integrate the student’s particular interests and the resources and opportunities provided by host organizations. The placement process begins during the fall semester of the junior year and concludes sometime around mid-late spring semester. Over HNGR’s history, the program has placed over 800 students in more than 70 countries and over 330 host organization

What Will I Learn?

Learn to understand and explain the multi-level systemic and structural causes of poverty; and, recognize multi-dimensional aspects of poverty as manifested in the interconnected domains of environment, economics, politics, wellness, art, society, culture and religion.