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Tortola Participants Raise Donations for Rainbow House
We know that VISIONS participants are special. After all, they choose to spend their summers in service to others. Although, certainly a change of scenery to a gorgeous, exotic location helps, too! On the heels of each season, inevitably we learn just how special...
Continuing Community Service in the U.S. and Abroad
By Stacy Bodow, VISIONS Program Director There is something about the high I feel on the heels of each VISIONS summer program abroad that keeps me coming back. It is more than just the wonderful memories I have of the teen travel programs and the work, the people and...
Camp Curious
There are summer camps—and then there are summer experiences. Is your kid ready for a skill-expanding adventure? By Erika Rasmusson Janes Mention the word “camp” and most parents have images of canoe rides and singing "Kumbaya" around the campfire. Those traditional...
Volunteering: Cultural Understanding Through Experience
It’s almost cliché to say that most of what constitutes hard news these days is depressing and disheartening (or inanely celebrity-focused, in this writer’s opinion). The economic, health, political, environmental issues around the globe taken together can feel...
Community Friends on the Northern Cheyenne
She is an elegant woman, calm and composed, soft-spoken and thoughtful. When she smiles, her strong wide face lights up, she laughs easily, and her eyes twinkle. Since our first summer on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Florence Running Wolf and her husband, Mike,...
Teen Travel Camps May Be Over, But the Need Goes On
2004 alumnus, Victoria Hynes, organizes a book drive to stock the new library at Cheyenne Children Services The ultimate testament to any endeavor is the long-term impact it has on people’s lives. Time and again, our alumni return home from a teen summer program so...