By Susan Winlow

Eighteen-year-old Madison Holzapple has never been out of the country.

For her first trip abroad, she didn’t choose a Paris getaway or a sunny beach trip to the Bahamas. The Solano Community College student is going to help out Saint-Georges, a rural village of about 5,000 on the southern coast of Haiti.

“I was kind of terrified at first,” she said. “It’s really exciting but it’s terrifying at the same time.”

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