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Whoever thinks high schools are not a microcosm for the larger world needs to take a look around. We’ve got two perfect examples of just what kind of difference young people can make in their schools and the world around them right here in Maine.
From Back Cove to Tunisia
For the last several years the youth philanthropy group YOUTHINK has been giving out grants to students in Portland schools to change the community around them. That includes money for things like redecorating a school to make it more comfortable, creating a peer-literacy program for students from immigrant families and designing workshops to help teachers better understand the lives of homeless students.
As it turns out YOUTHINK’s one-of-a-kind approach could be a model for a similar project in Tunisia."
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