Visions General PowerPoint Presentation 2009

Education. Empowerment.

Entrepreneurship.

A global nonprofit organization based in Southern California, USA

What is Visions?  Visions is a global nonprofit organization that seeks to educate, uplift, and empower disadvantaged youth and communities globally by providing academic and professional assistance through training in Leadership & Life Skills, English, and IT.  Formed in 2003 by Meera Pathmarajah  We work in Sri Lanka (since 2003), Kenya (since 2007), and India (since 2008)  Almost entirely volunteer-run  501c3 status pending

Visions Efforts 1. Visions Leadership Education Program (Sri Lanka, Kenya, India—ongoing) 2. Kalagam Visions Learning Centre, Colombo (Sri Lanka—project underway) 3. Visions Scholarship Program (Sri Lanka—restarted early 2009) 4. Proposed: St. John’s Institute of Technology (Sri Lanka—project on-hold) 5. Empowering local partners & building capacity 6. Various other support: sending library books, teacher trainings, computer & English education support, etc. (ongoing) 7. Global Health Education Program (planning phases)

Visions Leadership Education Program  Focus on Rights &

Leadership & Life Skills, Citizenship, and Global &

Human Local Issues

 Directly trained over 750 disadvantaged youth & teachers since 2003  Taken 80+ volunteers abroad on our programs  Opportunity to volunteer in Tamil Nadu this summer (August 2009): applications available  Plan to train 800+ in 2009 (Sri Lanka & India)

Never underestimate the power of service...

Contact: Greg Buie, Director gtbuie@gmail.com 714.315.0518

www.VisionsForTheFuture.org