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Private business funded, college kids with time on their hands--making a difference:

“It’s not hard. It’s tiring, but fun and enriching, because you’re in contact with the families, you have lunch with them, they participate in the construction, and we create really strong bonds with one another. We are one of the few institutions people trust, because they realize that we don’t expect anything in return,” said volunteer Sofia Wielandt, 21.

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A favorite college memory of mine is an adventure filled spring break trip with my Campus Ambassadors group -- Disneyland, Chrystal Cathedral, San Diego missions minded church, watching kids play in a Tijuana dump where they lived, visiting a orphanage, a real taco truck, and staying with a San Fransisco pastor of a El Salvadoran church. Also, eating at a soup kitchen.

Kids need these experiences...so that when they are older, like me...and their hearts and minds are more rigid...they remember...