Randy LeGrant

Randy is the Executive Director of the GeoVisions Foundation. He has spent the last 44 years managing organizations that send people abroad on cultural and educational exchanges.

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We Share AFS Roots...We All Do

Last night I watched Fly Boys, a movie about U.S. volunteers traveling to France in 1914 to take part in World War I. It’s a true story about the legendary Lafayette Escadrille, and tells the tale of America’s first fighter pilots. The Lafayette...

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At The Summit of Pike's Peak

It’s cold. The kind of cold that instantly freezes your wipers to the windscreen. For these wipers to be of any use, I would have to pull off the...

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Make Volunteer Abroad A 2007 Priority

It has been a busy month in planes, trains and automobiles, if you will pardon the movie reference. From its celebrated symbols of patriotism to its...

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Thank You For Volunteering Abroad

At this time of year, the Northeast United States has the “look and feel” of major change. The weather goes from hot and humid to cool and dry....

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A Day Volunteering Abroad At A Thai Orphanage

The flight to Chiang Mai from Bangkok takes only one hour. In that short amount of time, I left behind a bustling, urban, major-city and arrived in a...

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