Connections strives to foster, in each participating student, a greater sense of self-understanding and of connection to family, fellow students and the global community.
Students copy their outgoing mail to a teacher and share the responses with their class.
In some remote areas, obtaining student e-mail accounts has proven quite costly. Another hurdle is a lack of computers with Internet access. Many teachers in the Connections program have students write their letter by hand prior to typing it on an available computer or word processor. The students then save it to disk and can send it via a connected computer. This cuts down on the amount of time each student needs to spend on limited computer resources.