Charity Village®NewsWeek: Cover Story: "Identifying Canada’s future leaders: The Top 20 Under 20 Award
Louise Chatterton LuchukBy Louise Chatterton Luchuk
June 25, 2007
What were you doing when you were a teenager? Founding a nonprofit organization? Heading up two successful business ventures? Discovering an effective and natural alternative to immunosuppressive drugs? Me neither! Yet, these are just some of the extraordinary activities that this year’s Top 20 Under 20 award recipients are up to.
Top 20 Under 20 is the national flagship program of Youth in Motion, an organization co-founded ten years ago by president & CEO Akela Peoples to help youth transition from school into the workforce. Says Peoples, “We felt there was a widening gap and we saw a lot of young people struggle with career exploration and the decision-making process. Our goal is to raise awareness with young people that there are many paths to success in today’s world of work, to empower them to plan ahead, and to show the correlation between having a job that you love and being happy and successful in life.”"
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