RI District 1040 Youth Opportunities Website District 1040 Rotary Young Citizen Project Leader: Lesley Hastings

Ideas of projects that could gain awards are:  Interactors in the inner city raising money to buy ingredients & then cook and serve breakfasts for fellow students, whose parents can’t afford to give them a proper breakfast  Young people raising money for the Wheelchair Foundation to supply young people abroad with a wheelchair  A young disabled person achieving at sport  A youth exchange student doing charitable work abroad  The recognition & celebration of good citizenship of our young people is important. With your help we can grow the awareness of this award scheme –thank you.

Achievements of young people The achievements of young people are being celebrated with the Rotary Young Citizen Awards. Rotary Young Citizen is a project conceived by Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland (RIBI) in association with BBC News to celebrate the positive citizenship and vital responsibilities assumed by many young people in these islands. Ideas of projects that could gain awards are: · Interactors in the inner city raising money to buy ingredients & then cook and serve breakfasts for fellow students, whose parents can’t afford to give them a proper breakfast · Young people raising money for the Wheelchair Foundation to supply young people abroad with a wheelchair · A young disabled person starring at sport or helping other young people · A youth exchange student doing charitable work abroad · Award to a school for filling a very large number of shoeboxes or similar. A Rotary Young Citizen Award Recipient, a Young Carer, chats to fellow awardee Nicole through touch sign language during their visit to the BBC TV Centre.