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By David Marbaugh

Lilly celebrated [National Volunteer Week](http://www.pointsoflight.org/signature-events/national-volunteer-week) by sending off the first of 200 volunteers of 2013 who will serve in impoverished communities around the world as part of Lilly’s Connecting Hearts Abroad program. Teams departed on Sunday for Lima, Peru, and will depart for Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, this weekend—with more soon to follow.

I had the opportunity to go to India through this program and it forever changed the way I look at the world, my job, even my family. **[Continue reading about Connecting Hearts Abroad, Lilly's program celebrating National Volunteer Week.](http://bit.ly/11I6cNI)**



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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