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UNDER 20 AND AT THE TOP
Trinity students Ronan MacParland and Jasmeet Sidhu, bottom row, left, were among the winners of the 2007 Top 20 Under 20 Awards, a national program recognizing young people of outstanding achievement and potential.
MacParland, who just turned 20, will be entering his second year at Trinity in the fall, studying economics. In 2005 he led the charge to raise $30,000 to build a community resource centre in the rural village of Kigama in western Kenya. The centre provides a library, computers, and a staff of five to assist local students. This May he was back in Kigama, along with Students for International Development, a Trinity-based group working with local organizations in western Kenya on projects related to health, education, and reforestation. It looks as if he will be returning many more times. "There's going to be a long-term partnership for Trinity College and this village in Western Kenya," he says proudly.
Sidhu, 19, also part of the SID effort in Kenya, is the founder of the Peel Environmental Youth Alliance, a network of student groups that helps high-school students collaborate and share information about environmental projects. Now self-sustaining, thanks to a $215,000 Ontario Trillium Foundation grant, the PEY Alliance organizes conferences that give eco-minded students leadership training so that they can organize within their individual schools. What started when Sidhu was in Grade 10 today serves more than 300 students and has a full-time staff. Sidhu will be entering her second year in September and, after completing the university's Peace and Conflict Studies program, hopes eventually to work in international development.
Shazeen Suleman, who graduated in 2006, was a 2005 recipient of the award. She founded the MusicBox Children's Charity, an organization that mobilizes young people to teach music to children who do not have the means to do so.
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