The Manitoba Teachers Society is accepting nominations until April 10th for their Young Humanitarian Awards.  Their President Paul Olson explains they came up with this award a number of years ago because they noticed that there are a lot of awards for kids with high marks or for the star athletes but there weren’t really any awards that they were seeing prominently highlighted that talked about kids who were compassionate or showed self-sacrifice, leadership or creativity in dealing with human welfare issues, basically good citizens, good people, young humanitarians.  He says they thought it was time they created something like that to put the spotlight on the good works that many kids and teachers are doing in that area.

  Olson says any public school student from kindergarten to grade 12 can be nominated with three individual and one group award presented.  Nomination forms and details are available on their website www.mbteach.org.