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A month with VISIONS digging, mixing concrete and starting the construction of a community center was just the beginning for Ginny Ulichney, a teen volunteer of VISIONS Nicaragua last summer. Ginny returned home with the desire to do even more for our host community....

What if? What if there was a kind of Peace Corps experience for teens? A summer program of ambitious service projects, rooted in cross-cultural communities, with doses of adventure. Unlike the solo experience of the Peace Corps, however, this would be a group of...

This article was originally published in TeenLife Recently, there’s been a bit of lively buzz in the summer camps community about a new policy announced by the #1 ranked camp in Pennsylvania that allows “Smart phones, music players, tablets, e-readers, even...

VISIONS contributed this article to TeenLife There is really only one important thing to keep in mind for teenagers embarking on a summer or school break community service program in another country or culture: expect the unexpected. The one reliable constant of...

Be Here Now – What We Believe and Why Thousands of teens travel every summer to far away places to experience things that their parents never imagined when they were teenagers. Some parents desire regular updates from the field; some parents have even come to expect...