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Juana Brown on Providing Education and More to the Impoverished

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Oct 18, 2019

For decades, one Southwest Florida organization has been setting its sights on educating children in our community. Their focus isn’t just on kids in the city, but in the rural parts as well. Juana Brown, Director of Charter Schools for the Redlands Christian Migrant Association, talks about their work.

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