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UNG grad students use their healing hands
Students offer physical therapy treatment in Dominican Republic
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Melissa Housworth, left, and Darla Pruitt enourage a young Dominican Republic boy with celebral palsy to play with them. The game was a form of therapy.
While most college students soak up the sun on beaches for spring break, nine University of North Georgia graduate students immersed themselves in another culture for hands-on training in La Romana, Dominican Republic. The students, including Stacy Hubbard of Dawsonville and Melissa Housworth of Braselton, spent their weeklong break providing services to orphans and citizens living in poverty at several small health centers in La Romana, the third largest city in the Caribbean country. Dr. Phillip Palmer, associate professor of physical therapy, organized the health care trip to provide students with service-oriented learning and international opportunities to prepare them to become leaders in a global society.