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Copyright © 2002
Sixth Annual Maryknoll Youth World Mission Award
Join the winner's circle Win $1,000 scholarship
Maryknoll Missioners honor young people annually for their outstanding initiative and dedication to projects that significantly benefit those in need.

Mollie Bresnahan founded an Operation First Step chapter to provide prosthetics for the handicapped in Nicaragua (2001)
Sarah Bollinger & Jessica Kiefer launched Amigos for Christ to help rebuild hurricane-ravaged Nicaraguan town (2000)
Katherine Schwager with Friends of the Future brought computer Technology to youth in Ecuador (1999)
Amanda Meyers recruited countless peers for a Habitat for Humanity chapter that built homes low-income families in Indiana (1998)
Bradford & Cameron Kirby organized Towels for Tanzania, which provided over 30,000 pounds of bedding for a Tanzanian hospital (1997)
Who is eligible:
Those 16 to 21 years old who have organized a project for the needy in their own community or elsewhere may nominate themselves or be nominated by another person. Relatives of Maryknoll Missioners, Affiliates or employees are not eligible.

Here's how to win:
Father Peter LeJacq & 2001 Award winner Mollie Bresnahan
Submit a typed or neatly printed description of a nominee’s project. Include nominee’s name, age, address telephone number and high school or college name and location. Also include the names and telephone numbers of two adult references who know firsthand about the nominee’s project.

Deadline:
Nominations must be postmarked no later than March 1, 2002.

Mail to: Maryknoll Youth World Mission Award
            Box 308
            Maryknoll, NY 10545-0308
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