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Apia girl receives Queen’s Young Leaders Award

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II presented awards this past week to Queen’s Young Leaders in a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Members of The Royal Family and a host of high profile individuals attended the event, which recognised exceptional young people who are making lasting change in their communities and across the Commonwealth.

 

Earlier in the day The Queen’s Young Leaders, including Samoa winner Erna Takazawa from Apia, all took part in exciting engagements across London. They had a breakfast meeting with the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, at 10 Downing Street, visited the UK headquarters of global social networking company Twitter and met with Senior Executives at the BBC World Service.

 

Following the ceremony, The Queen’s Young Leaders Award winners spent four days in the UK taking part in a residential development program as part of the Award package.

 

The program includes a two day residential at the University of Cambridge to continue the online training they have been taking part in since January. The Young Leaders will then go on to meet with UK business leaders and visit life-changing social action projects, finished off on Friday 26 June, with a celebratory dinner at the top of the BT Tower.

 

The search is now on for the 2016 Queen’s Young Leaders Award Winners. If you or someone you know is doing exceptional work in their community apply or nominate them at www.queensyoungleaders.com