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OH (12/10/2009)
http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20091209/NEWS01/912090314/1002
Jena Pugh and two fellow AmeriCorps VISTAs spent Tuesday morning the same way they’ve spent the previous six: At the library assisting Newark second-grade students during a visit.
“The tour is cool because they get to see the inner hallways they don’t normally get to see,” Pugh said.
. The VISTA program, through Ohio Campus Compact, seeks to alleviate poverty through education, said Pugh, a 2008 Denison graduate who is stationed at COTC.
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I have always had a drive to serve others and work for the common good. But I never fully realized that I could go beyond volunteerism--that my opinion and hard work could influence policy decisions. My views changed when I sat in the office of one of my legislators in Washington, DC.
-Amanda Coffin, University of Maine at Farmington, Campus Compact student leader
