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She Wants Students to Take a Year Off to Do Good in the World

She Wants Students to Take a Year Off to Do Good in the World
Volunteering abroad between high school and college helps students learn teamwork and build leadership skills, says Abigail Falik who has launched a non-profit called Global Citizen Year.

Volunteering abroad between high school and college helps students to learn teamwork and build leadership skills, says Abigail Falik who has launched a non-profit called Global Citizen Year.

A graduate of Stanford Uni­ver­sity and Harvard Business School, Ms. Falik went to Brazil in her late teens to help street kids before later founding her one-of-a-kind, award-winning program in 2008.

As America's young adults find themselves in a new global economy and job market, her idea has come to fruition at exactly the right moment.

(READ the story in CS Monitor)

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