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PLNU $2 Challenge
About 40 Point Loma Nazarene University students took the $2 Challenge. Sponsored by the PLNU Microfinance Club, the purpose of the $2 Challenge was to give students a little glimpse of what it is like to live on $2 a day, the amount of money more than 2 billion people live on.
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Comment by Chris Temple on July 12, 2009 at 7:57pm - Way to go Point Loma! I will follow your lead by hosting one at Claremont Mckenna this coming year.
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