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May 23, 2024
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Clayton Collins
Director of Editorial Innovation

Trust doesn’t always come easy. It can come to those who choose to build it.

Stephen Humphries and Alfredo Sosa collaborated on a story that’s a tale of traffic cones and trash bags. More deeply, it’s about respect, purpose, and a shared sense of home – all humbly aimed at healing the kind of community division that feels pretty common today. If there’s a “poster story” for our ongoing project, Rebuilding Trust, this is probably it.

“These volunteers don’t put a high premium on power, status, or money,” Stephen says. As one social-trust tracker told him, “‘The relationships are the riches.’”


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Barbara Seaman (far left) and Melanie Wilson (pointing) survey seedlings with the East County Citizens’ Alliance volunteers on State Route 14 in Washougal, Washington.

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A bride sits with others during a mass wedding ceremony including 51 couples in Srinagar, in India-administered Kashmir, May 23. Mass weddings in India are set up by social organizations primarily to help economically weaker families who cannot afford the high ceremony costs, as well as the customary dowry and expensive gifts that are still prevalent in many communities.
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A look ahead

Thanks for reading. Come back tomorrow, when we’ll take that community theme global. The West Bank village of Farkha, with its communal philosophy and success in self-sufficiency, is keeping afloat. But residents say that amid occupation and war, it takes more than a village.

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