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THE PROVINCE I NEWS I A25 young agents awards: Victoria's Jake Duvall, North Van's Bo Palmer fight poverty FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2008 MOOD BY ETHAN BARON STAFF REPORTER 1 "These kids should get a good education like we're getting. I didn't want them to go into, like, child labour That's what happens if they don't go to school." Victoria's Jake Duvall, 14 in Busabaga village, 41 kilometres outside the capital of Kampala, and helped paint it. "These kids should get a good education like we're getting," Duvall said. "I didn't want them to go into, like, child labour and things like that. That's what happens if they don't go to school." At home, he's now set school against school in Victoria, in a competition to raise the most money for his project, Put the in Uganda, through walk-a-thons.

Palmer started his sporting-goods donation project with his own gear. "It just sort of snowballed," said Palmer, a running back at Windsor Secondary School. 'And it just keeps snowballing. Everybody has stuff in their basement or their shed. It's just lying there.

I knew there had to be a better use for it." Palmer distributes the gear to disadvantaged kids through Vancouver-area Boys Girls Clubs and the Salvation Army. ebaronpng.canwest.com Two youths who founded inspiring projects to help disadvantaged people will receive awards and grants tomorrow. Victoria's Jake Duvall, 14, and North Vancouver high-school football star Bo Palmer, 18, have won the Young Agents Awards from Global Agents for Change, a Vancouver-based organization dedicated to fighting poverty. Duvall, who won the global category, set up a fundraising project to expand a school in Uganda. Palmer, who won the local category, created Supporting Students in Sports to collect and distribute used sporting goods to young people in need.

Duvall and Palmer will each receive $750 for their projects, and will be linked up with the university students and young professionals of Global Agents for Change. jm I rx" 1 i "The main goal is to give them opportunities to find each other, and mentors," said Shawn Smith, president of the organization. "If you can get to these kids when they're really young, the sky's the limit in terms of what they can accomplish with a little bit of direction." Duvall held a skate-a-thon on his birthday and asked for donations instead of presents. He made close to $1,000 for the Uganda school expansion. Last summer he visited the school BO PALMER JAKE DUVALL Joey ThotTipson in iinrrai :JTrTvJl.t.,jl FRESH SLICE PIZZA BEST FINE PIZZA RESTAURANT A Vancouver favourite for healthy pizza Thank-you Vancouver for voting Freshslice Pizza 1 in 2007 To Show oui appreciation we're gonna make you an offer you can't refuse.

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