HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -
Iolani School
tenth grader Brittany Amano has been selected as Hawaii's top high school youth
volunteer in the 2013 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program, now in its
18th year. Amano will receive a $1,000 award, an engraved silver medallion, and
an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. for a series of national
recognition events from May 4 to 7, 2013.
Since
elementary school, Amano has been an active volunteer deeply committed to
community service. She began by volunteering at Leahi Hospital at the age of
10. When she was a seventh grader at Washington Intermediate School, she was
named Hawaii's top middle school youth volunteer in the Prudential Spirit of
Community Awards Program and then started her own non-profit "Hawaii's
Future Isn't Hungry" which is dedicated to supporting programs that aim to
end hunger.
At Iolani,
she is active with the Key Club and other community service clubs. She is also
on the YWCA's Young Women's Network Board which aims to recruit young women
voters. She also interned with the Hawaii Senate. Amano hopes to someday pursue
a career in public service or medicine.
Amano has now
qualified for the President's Volunteer Service Award which recognizes people
of all ages who have volunteered significant amounts of their time to serve
their communities and their county.
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