Megan Stellini '12 to receive Governor's Youth Service Award for Work in Haiti
Archmere junior Megan Stellini will receive the Governor's Youth Service Award for her time spent in Haiti last summer with the Haiti Family Initiative.
Along with several other students from Delaware, Megan Stellini '12 is being awarded the Governer's Youth Service Award for her work with the Haiti Family Initiative. These students worked from 1-2 weeks in a summer recreation camp organized by HFI for homeless earthquake victims in Jacmel, Haiti.
Megan plans to return to Haiti this summer.
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Volunteers began collecting supplies for the on-site program geared toward women and children in April 2010 and collected enough sporting goods, arts and craft supplies, medicines and funding to sustain a seven week continual program in Haiti. Over 160 storage bins, weighing over 8,000 lbs. were hand-carried as luggage by these teens and adult volunteers.
Most of the volunteers were unprepared to see starving and thirsty children who had no place other than a tent to live in. The teens were an integral part of running sports, arts and crafts, and music programs at the two HFI sites, an orphanage and The Salvation School in Jacmel. They helped to serve a nutritious lunch to over 150 campers per day. They helped Delaware volunteer doctors and nurses care for over 2,000 patients in the HFI medical clinic on the camp site.
Governor Jack Markell will be presenting the awards in a ceremony at the Caesar Rodney High School in Dover, DE on Thursday, April 21st at 5:30 PM.
Governor Jack Markell will be presenting the awards in a ceremony at the Caesar Rodney High School in Dover, DE on Thursday, April 21st at 5:30 PM.
Megan plans to return to Haiti this summer.
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grades 9-12 founded in 1932 by the Norbertine Fathers.
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