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Nice piece on boatbuilding helping troubled youth

I came across this piece in the Stamford Advocate on the Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory’s Boat,Build and Sail program. An excerpt:

Boat,Build and Sail is a free,after-school,13-week program each semester in which groups of 10 to 12 construct a wooden boat. Youths 12 to 18 go to the factory in Frankford [...]

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Another organization doing good by building boats –Rocking the Boat in NYC

I stumbled onto the story of the non-profit organization Rocking the Boat,based in the Bronx,New York City,in the blog Bridge Over Troubled Water. It’s another great story of an organization using the building of wooden boats as a path to helping at-risk youth. I love it. Here’s a nice quote form the [...]

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