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Three WCU physical therapy students will gain valuable hands-on experience this summer providing pro-bono treatment and services to residents of a community in Honduras with limited access to health care.

Members of the WCU family from as close as the Cullowhee campus to as far away as Ohio recently took time out of their schedules to provide a helping hand to their local communities for the second annual 鈥淐ats Give Back鈥� service weekend.

Greensboro native Preston Ellington鈥檚 journey to being a physical therapist started back in high school in a health and human sciences class.