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In 2011, Kayleigh Barnes, a high school student from Seaford, Delaware, decided she wanted to provide more opportunities for young women to…
Cassandra Bromfield and her family work through the Family Education Training Center of Hawaii and Hawaii 4-H to provide much needed assistant…
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