Blum Center for Developing Economies
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Blum Center Undergrads, Walking the Villages

Blum Center
July 28, 2017
1 min

Richard Blum looks back across 10 years of the Global Poverty and Practice Minor he created at UC Berkeley. More than 700 students have worked with organizations in 70 countries around the world–and the program is still growing. Read the blog post here.

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