About Us

What is World Next Door?

World Next Door, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

More than just a statistic.

Our mission is to use entertaining, thought-provoking and heart-breaking journalism to change ordinary people into wild-eyed revolutionaries and to unleash them on local and global issues of social injustice.

This website is part investigative newspaper, part travel magazine, part web journal. It’s like National Geographic meets Bizarre Foods meets an online blog, all with a social justice focus (issues like poverty, hunger, AIDS, etc.).

Through our unique style of communication, we attempt to awaken the adventurous spirit in uninvolved “suburbanites,” to get them connected to their true calling and in so doing, to multiply the impact of the organizations we write about.

How exactly does World Next Door do all of that?

To accomplish our mission, our team of journalists travels around the country and around the world, “embedding” ourselves in organizations and ministries that are actually doing stuff in the struggle for social justice.

One of the boys you can read about here at World Next Door.

We spend time among these ministries learning, listening and observing, then write about what we experience. Our articles reflect what the world is like away from the well-worn grooves of tourism. Our photographs and videos capture the faces, lives and emotions you don’t see when looking at statistics on a page.

World Next Door has got to be one of the only places you can read about what it’s like drinking birch tree sap in a Ukrainian sauna, or eating curried goat’s feet in India, then turn the page and read an article about an orphanage for disabled boys that absolutely shatters your perspective on the world.

It all comes down to this… We want to give you the chance to leave the cul-de-sacs and coffee shops behind, to explore the outside world, to discover the hope that lies just around the corner.

But I warn you, this stuff is dangerous. With World Next Door, you will not stay the same!