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Visionaries ( TV Series) www.visionaries.org
The Visionaries Institute of Suffolk University presents its Seventh Season of Quality Television. The Visionaries is sponsored in part by: The F. M. Kirby Foundation, The Fitzpatrick Family, Delta Health Cooperative, Lisa A. and David J. Robino, The Jackson Family, Bob and Margot Keith International Development Foundation in the United Kingdom, The Muslim Educational Foundation

Sample topics in the series:
Elderhostel : It's 10pm - Do you know where your grandparents are? Maybe they're trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal...or hitching a ride on a camel in Cairo...Perhaps they're in Arizona fulfilling a lifelong dream to fly an airplane...or in Monument Valley volunteering on a Navajo reservation. There's no end to the adventure on an Elderhostel program. (more on the Visionaries web site).

Pathfinder Village: Shifting the lives of people with Down Syndrome from fenced-in institutions into the general community, allowing them full and complete participation in society. (more on the Visionaries web site).

Outreach International: In October 1998, Hurricane Mitch wreaked unprecedented havoc in the country of Nicaragua. Homes were destroyed, crops were lost and thousands were killed. While many families huddled in their cramped homes praying for salvation, the small mountain town of Santa Lucia mobilized to protect their families and their community.(more on the Visionaries web site).

Many other great causes are profiled including: Christian Solidarity International, S.C.A., Yemin Order, Save the Tiger, M.S.H., TBIN, AFCM World Neighbors, Boys Hope Girls Hope, On Lok, Catholic Charities, WHOI, Foundation for a Civil Society, Water for People, American Friends Service Committee, S.E.A., Gould Farm, The Caring Institute, Nonprofits' Insurance Alliance of California, Connecticut Institute for the Blind/Oak Hill, Childreach, Freedom from Hunger, Accion, Christian Appalchian Project, Coral Reef Alliance, Volunteers of America, Hadassah, PACT, AmeriCares, American Liver Foundation, Refugees International, Human Service, Alliance, Salesian Fathers Christian Relief Services, AirServ, Alger Foundation, The PMC, Group B Strep Association, Maryknoll Sisters, Casas Por Cristo.
(more to come)

The Visionaries, Inc. (781) 356-6804
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