The Pramerica Spirit of Community Awards
The Pramerica Spirit of Community Awards is a school-level recognition programme for voluntary community service. The objective is to encourage the efforts of school children currently engaged in voluntary community service and hold them up as role models for all young Indians.
The programme is an extension of the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, the largest youth recognition programme in the United States, which Prudential Financial, Inc. (PFI) has been conducting for the last 16 years to identify the country’s top youth volunteers. The annual recognition events for the winners are held in Washington, D.C. and include gala award ceremonies at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, tours of the city’s historic monuments and landmarks, Congressional visits on Capitol Hill, a festive dinner cruise on the Potomac river, and many other exciting events. It also offers plenty of opportunity for the honourees from participating countries to share their experiences and ideas with one another.
Besides the United States, the Spirit of Community Awards programme is conducted in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Ireland. In India, the programme was introduced last year and more than 550 students from across the country participated in this initiative.
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