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This is a spot to feature posts from some of our students who are not regular bloggers.
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Winter Break - Service in Appalachia
- Elizabeth - Tuesday, February 05, 2008 - Over winter break, 6 DU students traveled to Vanceburg, Kentucky to volunteer with the Glenmary Home Missioners for a week. We stayed at the Glenmary Farm and volunteered with a variety of sites in the Lewis County area. Lewis County is an extremely poor area of our country. The unemployment rate is almost 20 percent and nearly 38 percent of residents live below the poverty level. In Lewis County, 50 percent of infants to preschool age children live under the poverty line and 11.5 percent of the mothers are 10 to 19 years of age.
