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High-school student Deisy Cedeno had never ventured far from her home in South Bronx, New York, before embarking on a journey to the Amazon rainforest.
"I had not traveled at all — the farthest I had gone was New Jersey," she said.
Cedeno didn't feel the limitation just geographically, either. "I didn't think much into the future," she said, "I didn't know how much I could change."
She knows now, though, and she credits her change in perspective to the trip organized by Learning AFAR, a nonprofit foundation that also provided her with a scholarship to cover the costs of the 10-day journey to Peru. Read more...
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