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Dispersed throughout 11 public service organizations in Appalachia, the students have tried to help the groups improve literacy, health and the environment in the region, said Karl Hill, the organizer of the internship program...
...residents of central Appalachia, a heavily mined, coal-rich region, have generally responded favorably to the students presence, Hill said. However, he added, it takes a period of adjustment for the locals to feel comfortable around the students, especially ones from Harvard...
...undergraduates, including three from Harvard, passed up the swinging Georgetown nightspots this summer for less glamorous locales in America's impoverished, rural Appalachia region...
...people of Appalachia have a long history of being exploited by Yankees fromthe North," Hill said. "But Yankees--and Bostonand Harvard is as Yankee as you can get--onoccasion encounter a justifiable hesitancy fromthe local community...
...Appalachia and soon-to-be-startedBangladesh internship programs are the first ODNprojects to directly supervise on-site studentpublic service work. In the past, ODN has only putstudents in touch with the groups...