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Kate Bosworth

An American actress

Bosworth starred in the television series Young Americans, in which she played Bella Banks. She became known with a leading role in 2002's Blue Crush. The following year, Bosworth played the teenage girlfriend of porn star John Holmes in Wonderland opposite Val Kilmer. In 2004, she portrayed Sandra Dee in Kevin Spacey's Beyond the Sea. Bosworth since appeared in several notable films, including Superman Returns (2006), where she played Lois Lane, and 2008's blackjack drama film 21. In 2008, she became both Calvin Klein Jeans newest model and spokeswoman for Coach newest luxury bags.

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Appalachia Service Project

4523 Bristol Highway, Johnson City, TN 37601

p: (800) 289 4254

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Appalachia Service Project

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The height of beauty, the depths of poverty...

How can a region so rich in natural resources be so poor?

You can't build factories on mountainsides. You can't plant crops. And for more than a hundred years, large corporations have extracted natural resources while putting little back in the form of taxes or community support.

The result is that jobs are few and far between. For many of these families, their modest houses-handed down from generation to generation-are the only real possession they have. But houses need maintenance. And when you don't even have money to put shoes on your kids' feet, fixing a hole in the roof is a low priority.

As a result, the homes are crumbling. Walls buckle. Roofs leak. And sagging floors pose hazards to the elderly and the very young.

Into this bleak environment, ASP shines a ray of hope. With help from volunteers like you, we repair more homes than any agency working in Appalachia.

We like to say that our goal is to make homes "warmer, safer and drier." And for more than 40 years, we've done exactly that for 14,000 families.

Yet for all that, we are only able to serve one in ten families who apply to us for help. We need many, many more volunteers to make a lasting dent in Appalachian poverty.

In other words, we need you.

Your volunteer work will give a special family some financial breathing room to concentrate on more important things. Like feeding their kids. Looking for work. And making plans for the future.

Best of all, your presence will touch their lives and remind them that compassion knows no boundaries. And that not even the highest hills and deepest hollows can separate them from God's love.

In the Central Appalachian Region we serve...

Poverty is more than double the national average
One in four lives below the poverty level-105,000 children, 195,000 adults, and 35,000 elderly
62,500 homes are substandard
19,000 homes lack adequate kitchens
21,000 homes lack complete plumbing
Nearly half of the families have annual household incomes below $20,000