Caption: Boxing for Charity, Credit: Ernie Friedlander
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Boxing for Charity 

Boxing for Charity

From: KRUA
Length: 04:17

What started as a fight to help an orphanage in Cameroon, has taken a member of the Engineers Without Boarders to fight in the boxing ring to raise money for their cause of helping a local orphanage. Read the full description.
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Boxing_gloves_small What started as a fight to help an orphanage in Cameroon, has taken a member of the Engineers Without Boarders to fight in the boxing ring to raise money for their cause of helping a local orphanage.  KRUA Sports Reporter Donald McSherry reports. 

This piece originally aired on the KRUA 88.1 FM news program, "The News Feed" on March 26th, 2010.

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What started as a fight to help an orphanage in Cameroon, has taken a member of the Engineers Without Boarders to fight in the boxing ring to raise money for their cause of helping a local orphanage.  KRUA Sports Reporter Donald McSherry reports. 

This piece originally aired on the KRUA 88.1 FM news program, "The News Feed" on March 26th, 2010.