Teenage Girls Find Confidence Sailing the Open Sea

Pink from the sun, unshowered and barefoot, the 17 teenage girls scarfed down fried chicken sandwiches after seven days at sea.  “I used to be a very anxious person, and I would let my anxieties hold me back from doing stuff that I felt I need to do,” Waverly Kremer, a high school junior, told VOA as she waited to board the Liberty Clipper. And that was the point of the voyage arranged by their small private school in Charleston, South Carolina: Return confidence to girls at a...

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