Youth-led organization GrowingChange presents on the chain gang era in rural North Carolina.

About GrowingChange:
Few projects solve—or even address—several problems at once. GrowingChange is one that does. GrowingChange is a youth empowered, nonprofit organization that is designed to address several tough problems that challenge North Carolina:

· the numbers of young people entering the penal system;
· a county with no locally grown, sustainable produced food;
· joblessness among wounded warriors returning from deployment;
· health disparities between African-Americans, Latinos, and whites;
· decreasing numbers of small farms and independent farmers,
· abandoned Brownfield properties decaying into dysfunction; and
· declining health outcomes among the rural poor.

How can GrowingChange address all these challenges? Three words: reclaim, attain, and sustain.
http://www.growingchange.org/reclaim-attain-sustain/