Teen's volunteer work nets top award from Titans foundation - Sunday, 01/08/06

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Local youth has raised funds for education, needy kids living abroad

By CLAY CAREY
Staff Writer

Sondra Clark had read stories and seen documentaries about poverty in Africa's poorest nations. She thought that had prepared her for a trip she and her parents took there five years ago.

But the sights she saw — children who had lost their parents to AIDS, kids her own age fighting with dogs for scraps of food, utter poverty — were shocking."