Visions Service Adventures

Overview

VISIONS mixes hands-on service, intercultural living, active exploration, and close camaraderie. Teens and staff live together as a small group (16 to 25 students and four to six leaders) in the heart of a host community. We work and socialize with residents.

While service is the thread running through the program, ample time to play and wind down are woven into the days and weeks. Because you are learning naturally and dynamically on so many levels, the potential rewards are significant.

While each location differs distinctly from another, all VISIONS programs share firm underpinnings.

• Long-standing ties at program sites and daily immersion in local life
• A natural sense of place and deeper understanding of the culture attained by living in a community throughout the program
• Careful on-site preparation - our leaders arrive well before participants, ensuring smooth transition into a functioning program environment
• Considered year-round planning underpins an intentionally well-rounded experience that blends work, cultural exchange and broad-based, challenging exploration
• Immersion in community life, and leaders who are fluent in the language, increases foreign language conversational skills
• The teaching of technical skills applied successfully to ambitious, collaborative projects
• High caliber, diverse leaders who return year after year

~ The VISIONS experience is one of developing leadership, relationship and communication skills while volunteering in under-resourced communties.  Less a teen summer camp or summer camp abroad, VISIONS is a comprehensive program of diverse experiences ranging from service to cultural immersion, foreign language immersion to adventurous exploration. ~