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Students get look at poverty

OH (11/13/2009)

http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20091113/LIFESTYLE/911130305

The Center for Community Service at Ashland University will sponsor a poverty simulation with the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Nov. 18.…

“The poverty simulation is an interactive and role-playing activity designed to show participants the realities and ambiguities of living in poverty and to dispel the myths and stereotypes often associated with it,” said Erica Phillips, coordinator of the Ohio Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA Program for AU’s Center for Community Service.

»Read the full article in Mansfield News Journal.

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