It's not all work and no play on a VISIONS teen travel program. Participants become part of the fabric of daily life in the community, shopping at local markets, attending festivals, playing games with children, conducting interviews with elders, and attending...
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Top 10 Reasons to Join VISIONS Alaska
1. Live where endless landscapes offer new perspective, replacing hordes, white noise and pressures of school, college apps and keeping up. 2. Stop dead in your tracks to watch moose on the roadside or caribou moving across the road right in front of you. To see bald...
LMHS Sophomore Enjoys Service-Oriented Alaskan Adventure
Article originally published by: Lower Merion School District This past summer, Lower Merion High School sophomore Griffin Murphy spent a month in a remote Alaskan village as part an international service-learning program, called VISIONS. “I wanted to travel to a...
South Kent Students Remember VISIONS Summers
Two VISIONS participants who were on two different programs last summer wrote in detail about their experiences in their school magazine. Blake Taylor was in Peru and Patrick Fleming in Alaska. Blake and Patrick both attend South Kent School, a college preparatory...
Student Volunteer Reflects on Three VISIONS Summers
The numbers of students who return for a 2nd and even 3rd VISIONS summer have grown steadily over the years. In October we received an email out of the blue that made our day from one such participant. Sylvia Murray, a veteran of three different VISIONS programs...
Letter from a VISIONS Veteran
The numbers of students who return for a 2nd and even 3rd VISIONS summer have grown steadily over the years. In October we received an email out of the blue that made our day from one such participant. Sylvia Murray, a veteran of three different VISIONS programs (Peru...