VISIONS alumnus, Harry Weiner, embodies the concept of life-long service. Harry participated in VISIONS second season in 1990 in the Appalachia program. His program home base was in the Central Pennsylvania farmlands about six miles from VISIONS Newport office....
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Community Friend in the British Virgin Islands
One of VISIONS oldest, dearest friends is Father David Stedman, pastor of St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Sea Cow’s Bay, our long-time home base on Tortola. Father Stedman is a born bridge-builder in the most practical, most generous sense—for his church community, in...
VISIONS Staff to be Honored in Festivals
We always knew our staff leaders were special. Now entire islands and sweeping valleys are celebrating them, too! Two of our dearest staff are to be honored in two very different places in the Western Hemisphere. Rich Webb founded and directed VISIONS Peru program; he...
Destination: Dominica
How 16-year-old Michelle Gersman learned to love cementing septic tanks in a tropical paradise. I was ready for a change. For the past two summers, I'd been working at a local day camp, and I really wanted to try something new like community service. Also, I'd only...
Traveling Teen
"We can barely keep up with it" said Kathy Stewart, the director of family trips at Butterfleld & Robinson, when asked about demand for the trips she organizes. Pamela Lassers of Abercrombie & Kent, reports that A&K has seen a 30 percent increase in family...
Guide to Keeping Student Volunteers Healthy
We take great care to keep teenagers healthy in the varied domestic and foreign communities in which we work. We carefully refine tried and true procedures and implement new ones as experience, information, and advances in health science indicate. The following are...