Helping children cope with poverty through service

Hundreds of low-income Connecticut high school students in Bridgeport, Stamford and Norwalk are sidestepping poverty and illiteracy, partly through learning to value their contributions in their own communities, as well as around the world, Jim Ziolkowski , founder of a Stamford-based nonprofit, told schoolchildren last week. In part, the decision to stay on the straight and narrow is enabled by broader perspectives and resiliency they've acquired in BuildOn's service programs close to home and internationally, Ziolkowski said.

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