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The Philanthropy Council made a US$1,500 administrative grant to OttawaReads and recruited 15 Adobe volunteers, who underwent screening and classroom training at the end of 2002. Working with kindergartners at nearby Cambridge Street Community Public School starting in January 2003, each volunteer will spend one hour weekly or biweekly during the school year reading aloud to and tutoring several students per session. Located in the same neighborhood as Adobe's Ottawa facilities, Cambridge is an inner-city school with an ethnically and culturally diverse student body.
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