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In Rwanda a Piece of VISIONS Helps a School Feel Like Family
Monique Schmidt directed VISIONS service programs abroad in Guadeloupe and at home in Montana. A poet, teacher and published author (her memoir Last Moon Dancing is the story of her Peace Corps years in Africa), Monique moved to Rwanda last November tobe Program...
Avengers of the New World: The Haitian Revolution
A newsletter at this time seems irrelevant without acknowledging the horrific catastrophe in Haiti. The tremendous outpouring of aid and support to Haiti surely bolsters confidence in our world's future. Youth across the U.S. have been especially responsive by...
Reflections on VISIONS Vietnam 2009
Reflections on VISIONS Vietnam 2009 by Alex Ottenstein I sit down on Hue’s bed, a metal frame with a bamboo mat on top of it. Hue is eleven years old, with luminous eyes and long black hair that reaches her waist. She wants to teach me a board game. I know this will...
PERU DIRECTOR DEBUTS FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY
“Mi Chacra” (My Land), the first feature-length documentary film by Jason Burlage, who staffed and then directed VISIONS Peru (2005 through 2007), was chosen to debut at the Denver Film Festival in November. Jason spent a year filming in the Sacred Valley and another...
Turkey Creek Documentary on Bill Moyer’s Journal
VISIONS Mississippi teen summer volunteer program takes place in a small community just outside Gulfport, called Turkey Creek. The struggle to preserve the community and the surrounding environment, its history and heritage, are the subject of an upcoming documentary....
1,100 Ways to Make a Difference
The service accomplished by VISIONS participants in two decades is mind-boggling. VISIONS participants don't just ferry buckets of nails to carpenters or hand off cinder blocks and adobe bricks to maestros to put in place. Our participants do the work. For...