AmeriCorps VISTA members are passionate and committed to their mission to bring individuals and communities out of poverty. Members make a year-long, full-time commitment to serve on a specific project at a nonprofit organization or public agency. They focus their efforts to build the organizational, administrative, and financial capacity of organizations that fight illiteracy, improve health services, foster economic development, and otherwise assist low-income communities.

Life as a VISTA was challenges in more ways than I could have imagined,  but the rewards continue to abound.  This is what my year of service with Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity looked like!

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