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LEAF connects inner-city students to nature

Five years ago, Joshua Carrera was a high school sophomore living in a homeless shelter in New York City, thinking he would never find a way out.

"There was just no sense of hope in the environment that I grew up in," said Carrera, who grew up in Bushwick, Brooklyn. "It just wasn't getting any better."

Now, however, Carrera is a student at the University of Vermont, and this summer...

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