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star-24px 2021 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Diversity and inclusion
The Creativity as a Catalyst for Inclusion project will transform a 10acre campus into a hub of multicultural and intergenerational art, community gardening and environmental stewardship, by installing an international garden, creating new programs, contructing an outdoor classroom, and hosting an event celebration the opening.

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Volunteers planting in raised garden beds.
Vegetable plants to be planted.
Wood benches made of slit logs.

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