November 22, 2009
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Young People to Make Pole-to-Pole Trip to Inspire Civic Action

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Mieke H. Bomann The American News Service (www.americannews.com) 
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The group will divide into three teams at the North Pole. One will travel through the Americas, another through Europe and Africa, and the third through Asia and Australia. Along the way they'll lend a hand in various projects that Williams says are models of sustainability and humanitarian efforts.

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For example, 'Team Americas' will travel through Canada, the United States and Central and South America. Their volunteer efforts will include inner-city youth projects in Rio de Janeiro, a gardening project in the Mexico City slums, a river cleanup on the Hudson in New York, and salmon restoration in New Brunswick.

A film crew will travel with the groups, and participants will file dispatches daily on the Internet. They will also invite interested audience members, especially schoolchildren, to write down a personal vow of civic action that expedition members will carry with them.

Journeys of difficulty and endurance have inspired entire societies to courage and action, trip literature notes. 'No expedition of this magnitude has ever been undertaken. The time has come to prove it can be done.'

Contacts: Martyn Williams, expedition leader, Pole to Pole 2000, British Columbia, Canada, 250-395-1737; web site: www.pole2pole2000.com.

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