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WE GUA’N BAK DE (GOING HOME AGAIN) – REFLECTIONS FROM A SUMMER STAFFER
by Richard Webb, South Carolina staffer 1997 (and 1998) Under the leadership of staff veteran Marvin Mastin, a fledgling VISIONS summer volunteer program for high school students took flight in South Carolina's Sea Islands in the summer of 1997. It was a remarkable...
The Toughest Summer You’ll Ever Love
By Marsha Whitfield Girls everywhere are trading in trips to amusement parks and summer camps for a chance to work their tails off for a payoff that will last a lifetime. This is what Rachel Perschetz took last year on her summer vacation: one pair of work gloves, two...
World Views are a Work in Progress
Newsletter of the Department of Religious Studies at Southwest Missouri State University By Joby Taylor In 1956 the anthropologist Horace Miner composed his now famous essay "Body Rituals of of the Nacirema," describing the elaborate superstitions of a thriving North...
VISIONS Chain of Service
One Site, Many Teen Summer Programs Abroad: Link by Link One of the wonders of VISIONS is the lives touched by it both during and after each teen summer program abroad; the lives of people who are moved by the generosity of VISIONS participants, the participants...
Seeing Lives Beyond the Sand and Beaches
By Noam Schimmel Bus rides to the airport at the end of a group trip are never easy, The faces express an almost uniform melancholy disposition, a blank look that is a guise for the internal rumblings of every person's emotions and thoughts. On this bus ride to the...
THE VISIONS STORY
The seed was sown 1988 with a simple question...What if? What if there was a Peace Corps for teenagers? A youth summer program of ambitious community service rooted in cross-cultural communities, and with doses of adventure. Unlike a Peace Corps solo experience, this...