Jumpstart Volunteers

Jan 30, 2011

Joshua Bickel, Columbia Daily Tribune

Ashley Smith, center, a University of Missouri freshman from Monroe, La., scoops rice into a plastic bag yesterday at the Food Bank of Central and Northeast Missouri as Nikki Winningham, left, an MU freshman from Vandalia, and Marrissa Purnell, right, an MU freshman from Chicago help out. The women are from Jumpstart, a national program affiliated with AmeriCorps that engages college students to tutor at-risk children. The group volunteered at the food bank for the past two weekends to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

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