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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