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Service with a smile: Matt Hudson-Flege oversees AmeriCorps members who help low-income high school students get into college.
FREE COLLEGE IF
YOU SERVE
If we expanded national service, every American could
afford to seek a bachelor's degree-and have the support
they need to get to graduation and into a career.
By Paul Glastris
M
att Hudson-Flege was a high school senior when the
9/11 terror attacks occurred. Filled with a desire to
do something for his country, he considered joining
the Army, but decided he was " too much of a hippie, " he recalls.
Going straight to college didn't seem quite right either,
though he applied to a few.
Then someone told him about the National Civilian
Community Corps (NCCC), an AmeriCorps program that puts
small teams of young people to work on short-term service
projects at nonprofits around the country. He signed up, and
soon after graduating from high school found himself working
at a Salvation Army food pantry in the seedy Tenderloin
District of San Francisco.
The firsthand view of urban homelessness was eyeopening
for the 19-year-old from middle-class suburban
Cincinnati. So too was learning to live with 10 other NCCC
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members from a wide range of backgrounds in a cramped
halfway-house apartment. When it was his turn to cook for
the group, for instance, he decided to make chili the way he
had learned to growing up: just ground beef with cinnamon
and other spices. The roommate he was sharing cooking duties
with, a West Virginian from a single-parent family, had
other ideas. Into the pot she threw beans, corn, peppers,
and tomatoes.
" What are you doing? " he asked.
" I'm making chili, " answered the young woman.
" That's not chili! " he exclaimed.
" Yeah it is, " she replied.
After asking his other roommates, who also hailed from
different parts of the country, Hudson-Flege realized that " 99
percent of America doesn't eat chili like we do in Cincinnati. "
It was such a revelation that he still remembers the incident
Courtesy of Matt Hudson-Flege

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