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Creating Community Amid Urban Decline: Claire Fyrqvist at TEDxUND

674 views · Published 27 February 2014 · 10:52 · Indexed 22 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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A Program of Liberal Studies major while at the University of Notre Dame, Fyrqvist, class of 2005, says she left Notre Dame believing that people have the ability and obligation to make big changes for the better in the world. But, after teaching for some time at an orphanage in Honduras, she chose to return to South Bend, Ind., now a place she calls, "home." There, working among the homeless and serving as a force for change in her own neighborhood, she has experienced the transformational power value of acting locally.

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