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Student-Developed App Helps Farmworkers

Published April 27, 2017

Feliciano Paredes grew up in a family of seasonal farmworkers. He remembers the struggles of going to unknown areas for the season, and said it could take days to find help if their truck was broken, and sometimes they would arrive at a farm to find there was no work available.

Now, with help from Grand Valley graduate student Xiaomei Huang, Paredes is seeking to solve this problem through an app the two are developing.

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Student-Developed App Helps Farmworkers
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