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Sweat and Tears BY KATE UNDERWOOD
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hristian Appalachian Project’s (CAP) alternative spring break experience brings hundreds of high school and college students to Eastern Kentucky every year to make much-needed home repairs in the region. Many participants have been on the list for months waiting for eager volunteers to add their labor to that of CAP staff and to see their homes made safe, warm, dry, and accessible. But not this year. Though CAP staff had prepared homes for new roofs, kitchens, bathrooms, floors, and porches, new coronavirus restrictions required teams already here to be called home and led to the cancellation of the remainder of this annual housing repair blitz. This left many homes prepped for repairs and only CAP staff to do the work that would have been completed by hundreds of volunteers. Continued on page 16
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