Pahiatua Girl Guides Receive Funds from Award Winning Student Volunteer

Pahiatua Girl Guides has received a $250 donation from the winner of the TrustPower Youth Community Spirit Award.

Lauren Nyhan from Tararua College was named as winner of the Award, which recognises secondary school students’ service to the school and the community. The Award is jointly run by TrustPower and the Tararua District Council and was presented at the TrustPower Tararua District Community Awards, held on 10 May 2010.

For winning the Award Lauren received a framed certificate and $500, with $250 going to Lauren personally and $250 being given to a community group or organisation of her choice.

“Receiving $250 is such a huge thing for us. It will help out the group a lot,” says Nanette Davenport of the Pahiatua Girl Guides.

TrustPower Community Relations Representative Suzi Luff says the TrustPower Youth Community Spirit Award has been a wonderful opportunity to publicly acknowledge the work young people do to enrich their community.

“Often young people receive a lot of negative attention and we forget the tremendous amount of unpaid work young people do which adds tremendously to the fabric of our community. Lauren is involved in many aspects if her school, from netball, athletics to music as well as being a Peer Support Leader. Outside of school, she has helped raise money for the Haemophilia Foundation of New Zealand, has been a youth delegate at the camp in 2010, went to World Youth day in Australia, helped fundraise money for breast cancer in Palmerston North last year and has been a Girl Guide for the last five years,” says Miss Luff.

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