Grade 6 student Kara recently won the top writing prize for her poem.
An Orangeville student won a top prize in a writing contest.
Kara, a Grade 6 student at Orangeville’s Montgomery Village Public School, won the annual Habitat for Humanity Canada’s writing contest by writing a poem.
Titled “What home means to me,” the poem helped Kara win a $30,000 grant to help build homes that will go to Habitat for Humanity Halton-Mississauga-Dufferin.
In a release, Mayor Sandy Brown said “Kara, and so many students like her, are an inspiration to us all.”
He went on to say “their conviction that everyone deserves a safe haven to return to each night is the founding principle of Habitat for Humanity and the crucial work that they do.”
Brown finished by saying “many people may not have been aware until now that Orangeville is connected to the Mississauga/Halton/Dufferin Habitat for Humanity.”
More than 12,000 entries from students in Grades 4, 5 and 6 were submitted this year, helping to raise more than $300,000 for local Habitat for Humanity organizations across the country.
A grand prize is given to one student in each grade for their local branch.
Nine other prizes are given out to the runner-up in each grade worth $10,000.
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