An imbroglio over fund raising and support for a service organization called ‘Pennies for Peace’ won’t go away easily.
This follows a recent news report on the CBS program “60 Minutes” that questioned the accuracy of a narrative that has inspired hundreds of thousands of people and helped to raise millions of dollars for the building of 54 schools in Afghanistan.
I’d been invited to prepare a presentation on service learning to my school’s leadership team. We were discussing a proposal to make community service an ‘expectation’ for all graduating seniors.
It was 1996, the pre power-point era, and my supporting visuals were slides for an OHP. For digital natives – that’s an Over Head Projector.
Yet another great sound bite from the BBC (I know, it has been a bit of a theme lately! 
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Science in Action is a BBC World Sevice programme that is always worth a listen:
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