Rockin' It With VISIONS
What happens when you combine 328 exceptional teenagers with 61 incredibly motivated staffers in 10 communities around the world for two months? Check out what VISIONS participants accomplished last summer!
- Renovated 3 community centers
- Constructed 4 playgrounds
- Built or renovated 11 schools
- Constructed 1 outdoor environmental classroom
- Built 1 music room / steel pan practice shed
- Cleared and created 3 sports fields
- Built 26 picnic tables
- Renovated houses for 7 local people
- Built furniture for 3 libraries
- Painted a Children's Home
- Did maintenance on / environmental work in 9 different gardens/farms/nature trails
- Worked on a tilapia farm
- Planted over 200 trees
- Helped repair a Senior Citizen Center and joined activities with residents
- Taught English classes in two communities
- Ran 4 summer camp programs
- Painted 2 murals and constructed 1 tile mosaic
- Patrolled a beach for nesting and hatching turtles
- Repaired/re-built over 2 kilometers of irrigation canal systems
- Assembled and helped install 25 cocinas mejoradas (smokeless stoves)
- Worked alongside over a dozen individual entrepreneurs, micro businesses, farmers, artisans
- Built 12 doghouses and 1 cat tower
