Travel Tips: VISIONS Alumni Share Their Best Tips from Summer Programs If you've traveled for a VISIONS Service Adventures program before, you understand how much you can learn from a summer away from home. Yes, service projects are at the core. But they're in equal...
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VISIONS Cambodia, one of our former teens service programs in Southeast Asia, and a program site for several years.
Educational Consultant Explores VISIONS Cambodia
International education consultant Sandy Furth featured VISIONS in a recent article for Insights, the newsletter for the Independent Educational Consultant Association (IECA). Sandy visited our Cambodia program site last spring, and talks about her time seeing the...
Two VISIONS Summers, Two Very Different Cultures
Lizzie Edwards, a high school student and teen volunteer from Portland, Oregon, recently wrapped up a summer service adventure with VISIONS Ecuador & Galapagos. It was her second VISIONS summer, and a world away from her first program in Cambodia. Next up? Myanmar...
LA Times Spotlights VISIONS and Mississippi Alum
The following article featuring VISIONS and Mississippi alum Yongqi Xu is from the Los Angeles Times. Wanderlust Lands Irvine Teen in Hurricane Katrina-Devastated Areas August 28, 2015 When Irvine resident Yongqi Xu was in search of a summer adventure, she knew she...
A Day in the Life of VISIONS
A Look at a Typical Summer Day What’s a typical day like on a VISIONS summer program? It’s a question we get often. You might wake up to a chorus of birds in the mountains of Nicaragua, to a frosted landscape by the Wrangell Mountains in Alaska, to merengue music and...
Glitter Magazine Features VISIONS Director
The following is an article from "Glitter Magazine" that spotlighted VISIONS Director, Katherine Dayton, for the publication's "Real People" feature. REAL PEOPLE: Katherine Dayton, Executive Director of VISIONS Service Adventures January 16, 2015 Glitter Magazine is...