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We envision a global community of leaders collaborating across boundaries to build a more compassionate society and to address critical social challenges.
Through Asia and US-based experiential learning opportunities that encompass self-reflection, creative problem-solving, and cross-cultural connection, VIA equips emerging social impact leaders with skill sets and mindsets to address complex human challenges.
Through Asia and US-based experiential learning opportunities that encompass self-reflection, creative problem-solving, and cross-cultural connection, VIA equips emerging social impact leaders with skill sets and mindsets to address complex human challenges.
In 1963, then Dean of Freshman Men at Stanford University, Dwight Clark, organized a summer volunteer project with Stanford students to provide support to refugees in Hong Kong. The program had a profound impact on the students and reshaped their personal and professional aspirations. The students were so inspired by the benefits of their cross-cultural experience that they encouraged others to participate in similar projects. In 1966, these programs were brought together under the name "Volunteers in Asia" (VIA).
VIA’s mission and work has always reflected an innovative, human-centered approach. At a time when no other service learning organizations were sending individuals to remote areas of Asia such as Indonesia and Vietnam, VIA not only sent volunteers to these areas, but took a groundbreaking approach, facilitating cross-cultural exchange from a place of learning and humility rather than centering external values and mindsets. From the onset, VIA’s culturally responsive programming has promoted respectful curiosity, appreciation, and collaboration with the cultures and communities in which volunteers were placed.
Since its founding, VIA has grown to offer short-term cultural and professional training programs, internships, and year-long fellowships throughout Asia and in Silicon Valley to equip individuals with skillsets and mindsets to address today’s social challenges. We continue to embrace our innovative roots, evolving to serve the needs of our participants and partners, while encouraging curiosity, humility, and compassion.
VIA’s mission and work has always reflected an innovative, human-centered approach. At a time when no other service learning organizations were sending individuals to remote areas of Asia such as Indonesia and Vietnam, VIA not only sent volunteers to these areas, but took a groundbreaking approach, facilitating cross-cultural exchange from a place of learning and humility rather than centering external values and mindsets. From the onset, VIA’s culturally responsive programming has promoted respectful curiosity, appreciation, and collaboration with the cultures and communities in which volunteers were placed.
Since its founding, VIA has grown to offer short-term cultural and professional training programs, internships, and year-long fellowships throughout Asia and in Silicon Valley to equip individuals with skillsets and mindsets to address today’s social challenges. We continue to embrace our innovative roots, evolving to serve the needs of our participants and partners, while encouraging curiosity, humility, and compassion.
