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Celebrating 25 Years and 1,100 Projects
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...
Plugged or Unplugged? Technology and Programs for Teens
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...
Expect the Unexpected: Teen Summer Service Programs
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...
Mississippi Environmental Service Project Makes the News
High school volunteers on our Mississippi summer program completed many great projects this summer. Students constructed community gardens with raised beds, did extensive renovations to a home damaged by Hurricane Katrina, helped with trail maintenance and other...
A Message to Parents
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...
Thank You from Virgin Gorda (BVI) Animal Rescue
Dear Visions Staff and Participants, We are the volunteers who run animal rescue and control the dogs of Virgin Gorda. Thank you so very much. What wonderful, dedicated staff and teens you sent to our island to help in so many community projects. They worked so hard...