The following is an excerpt from a Montana Public Radio interview with VISIONS Director Katherine Dayton What is your role in the program? One of my primary responsibilities is to oversee our international teen service programs in 14 locations around the world. This...
“What is going to change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past: an idea, and the service of dedicated individuals committed to that idea.” –Sargent Shriver, Peace Corps founder Last month past VISIONS program director (Dr.)...
Among teen community service programs, VISIONS can be distinguished by a few ongoing, fundamentally integrated elements. One is the ambition of our community service projects for teens. Historically, the sophistication of VISIONS projects is impressive, specifically,...
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...
Hello, Visions! I was on the Tortola trip last summer (2008), and after reading [the December 2008] newsletter I just wanted to share an experience that I believe will stay with me for many years. One of our work projects in Tortola was building a small, one-room...
A question we’re often asked is, how serious, how authentic, are the service projects VISIONS undertakes? Is it ‘real’ service? Our archives from 1989 to last summer overflow with stories that tell of the impact VISIONS projects have had on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
For a month we lived in the Ba Vi district roughly an hour southwest of Hanoi at the Disabled Children’s Center enclave. Primarily, we helped create an occupational therapy garden for Center residents by constructing a 115 ft x 7 ft concrete path to the...
By Rena Auguiste A contingent of 21 American students is spending the summer vacation in the Carib Territory this year, exploring Dominica and engaging in various voluntary community service activities as part of the annual VISIONS Dominica youth program. Director of...
