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Bridges to India - Riverdale 2013

Bridges to India is a student- led global services organization comprised of high school students from the Riverdale School District in Portland, Oregon. For the last seven years, they have developed community service projects, raised the funds to implement them, and traveled to Kerala on the southwest coast of India to enhance the quality of life improvements chartered by Hope Charities, Inc.

8.07.2012

Did you know...


India is the birthplace of chess?  

The original word for “chess” is the Sanskrit chaturanga, meaning “four members of an army”--which were mostly likely elephants, horses, chariots, and foot soldiers!


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