Alaska

Work Hard and Play Hard

It’s not all work and no play on a VISIONS teen travel program. Participants become part of the fabric of daily life in the community, shopping at local markets, attending festivals, playing games with children, conducting interviews with elders, and attending...

Top 10 Reasons to Join VISIONS Alaska

1. Live where endless landscapes offer new perspective, replacing hordes, white noise and pressures of school, college apps and keeping up. 2. Stop dead in your tracks to watch moose on the roadside or caribou moving across the road right in front of you. To see bald...

LMHS Sophomore Enjoys Service-Oriented Alaskan Adventure

Article originally published by: Lower Merion School District This past summer, Lower Merion High School sophomore Griffin Murphy spent a month in a remote Alaskan village as part an international service-learning program, called VISIONS. “I wanted to travel to a...

South Kent Students Remember VISIONS Summers

Two VISIONS participants who were on two different programs last summer wrote in detail about their experiences in their school magazine. Blake Taylor was in Peru and Patrick Fleming in Alaska. Blake and Patrick both attend South Kent School, a college preparatory...

Student Volunteer Reflects on Three VISIONS Summers

The numbers of students who return for a 2nd and even 3rd VISIONS summer have grown steadily over the years. In October we received an email out of the blue that made our day from one such participant. Sylvia Murray, a veteran of three different VISIONS programs...

Letter from a VISIONS Veteran

The numbers of students who return for a 2nd and even 3rd VISIONS summer have grown steadily over the years. In October we received an email out of the blue that made our day from one such participant. Sylvia Murray, a veteran of three different VISIONS programs (Peru...

Venturing Beyond the Hillside

Since 2004 South Kent has offered students a four-week opportunity for service work and cross-cultural immersion during the summer. Fourth and fifth form students compete for the annual $3,400 scholarships to participate in the acclaimed VISIONS summer...

NY Times: In Summer, Hitting the Books, Not Just the Beach

Excerpt— VISIONS Service Adventures (406-551-4423; visionsserviceadventures.com) of Bozeman, MT, operates three domestic service programs in addition to those around the globe. Domestic programs are three or four weeks long. One work and residence program is in Turkey...

Community Service in the Gulf Coast of Mississippi

This past summer VISIONS took 26 students to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The program enrollment was one more than our maximum limit of 25. In fact, VISIONS Mississippi was one of the first programs to fill last year, and as late as May we were turning away interested...

Students Do Good, Look Good Abroad

But some colleges question motives. By Alison Lobron When Becky McDougal, 17 traveled to Guadeloupe last summer to build homes for impoverished families, most of her inspiration came from the desire to help others, but some of it came in the mail. During her sophomore...

Calling All VISIONS Alumni

Hello, VISIONS alumni! Many of you have stayed in contact over the years with us and with your trip mates.  Some of you even have returned to VISIONS to work as staffers. We love hearing what you are up to, what you have been doing since your summers with us, and in...

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...