Transforming Neighborhoods

(5:16)

with Carla Underwood, Alumni Student of buildOn

Posted

Aug 30, 2018

buildOn is not a charity, it’s a movement. buildOn empowers U.S. urban youth to transform their neighborhoods and the world through intensive community service. Globally, they are constructing new schools every two days in some of the economically poorest countries around the world.

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