Four Danbury Youth Receive National Youth Volunteer Corps Awards

Press release:

DANBURY, Conn. (November 13, 2014) — Four local youth were honored by Youth Volunteer Corps (YVC) for their service to the local YVC of Western Connecticut program. These youth were awarded with the 100-in-1 Award for youth who have volunteered at least 100 hours with YVC in a single year.

“We’re so proud of the hard-working youth in the YVC of Western Connecticut program,” said David Battey, founder and president of YVC in Kansas City. “Volunteering 100 hours in a single year is a great accomplishment for anyone, let alone teenagers balancing school and other extracurricular activities.”

Below is a full list of the youth honored:

• Korrine Nelson, student at Danbury High School

• Misha Prukalski, student at Danbury High School

• Matthias Siber, student at Danbury High School

• Bonnie VosWinkel, student at Immaculate High School

YVC of Western CT engages youth ages 11-18 in quality, team-based service-learning projects. For five years, YVC of Western CT has engaged young people from diverse backgrounds in service projects helping the community. Nearly 200 youth served 3,679 hours with YVC of Western CT during the last program year. For more information, please visit www.uwwesternct.org/yvc or on social media atwww.facebook.com/yvcofwc, on Twitter @yvcofwc and Instagram at yvcofwc.

Photo: Pictured from left to right: Misha Prukalski; Matthias Siber; AmeriCorps member Morgan Greening; Bonnie VosWinkel; and Korrine Nelson.

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