Articles in the ‘community service’ Category

What We're Reading: The Hopi Worldview

This book is absolutely wonderful if you have an interest in Native American history and culture. Frank Waters’ “Book of the Hopi” gathers material from interviews with 30 elders from the remote Hopi reservation, describing their spiritual heritage in rewarding detail and sharing some of the secrets of their annual cycle of rituals and ceremonies. …

Featured Photo: Historic Service

This featured photo is community service-themed. In the past few years community service has become a buzzword in the world of teen summer camps and travel programs, and that’s great. At Deer Hill, community service for teens has been an integral part of our mission and values for two decades. We might even humbly suggest …

Deer Hill and The Tandana Foundation

Deer Hill alumni and field leader Anna Taft works on intake for a medical clinic in Ecuador’s remote highlands with the Tandana Foundation Anna Taft, an alumni and longtime Deer Hill leader on our adventure summer camps, wrote this piece about how her Deer Hill experiences shaped the development of a non-profit organization, The Tandana …

Anatomy of a Service Project

Stanford chats with Matt Aranow and Mia Burkhalter, of the Ancient Pathways program 2009, while they take a break from Hogan building. Caroline Goodman, a Program Leader with Deer Hill, wrote this piece about her community service project in the Navajo Nation in 2009 with the Ancient Pathways adventure summer camp group. You can learn …

Featured Photo – Hopi Friend

Sarah Haynor and Richard Honeystewa hanging out in Hopi This photo, taken by Outreach Director Richard Malcolm while on a community service site visit with Canyon Country 2009, shows one of the special friendships created this summer at Deer Hill. Sarah Haynor, of Seattle, WA, is taking a break from the service work to hang …