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Exchange Exemplar: "The Promise Of A Pencil"

Juliancolton, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15280422

It started with a pencil, but it became so much more. 

Adam Braun came face-to-face with a little boy in India who wanted a pencil.  It was really symbolic: what he really wanted was an education. 

So that incident led to the formation of a group that has now built hundreds of schools all over the world. 

Adam Braun told the story inThe Promise of a Pencil and joined us on The Exchange to talk about it three years ago.  We return to that interview here. 

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.