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...
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Venturing Beyond the Hillside
Since 2004 South Kent has offered students a four-week opportunity for service work and cross-cultural immersion during the summer. Fourth and fifth form students compete for the annual $3,400 scholarships to participate in the acclaimed VISIONS summer...
VISIONS Vietnam 2008 – Impressions of Our Inaugural Summer
For a month we lived in the Ba Vi district roughly an hour southwest of Hanoi at the Disabled Children's Center enclave. Primarily, we helped create an occupational therapy garden for Center residents by constructing a 115 ft x 7 ft concrete path to the garden...
U.S. Students Explore Carib Territory
By Rena Auguiste A contingent of 21 American students is spending the summer vacation in the Carib Territory this year, exploring Dominica and engaging in various voluntary community service activities as part of the annual VISIONS Dominica youth program. Director of...
VISIONS Vietnam – Unforgiving and Beautiful
by Gretchen Bade, Vietnam Summer Staffer 2008 It has taken me a long time to come to this. I sit, in a cloud, in Sa Pa as I write: Unforgiving and beautiful. My perspective of my time in Vietnam with VISIONS teen volunteer abroad program can appropriately be captured...
Guadeloupe Participant to Her Leaders
We liked this email from our archives from a Participant to her Guadeloupe leaders because she shares an unusually helpful bonus she got from her teen summer travel to VISIONS Guadeloupe. Dear Annie and Ryan, I have been meaning to email both of you over the past week...