AFS-USA Volunteer Wins Galatti Award!
It is our great pleasure to announce that Carol Ann Zimmerman, of Sublette, KS, has been named one of the four winners from around the world of the 2009 AFS International Galatti Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service.
Throughout her over 30 years of dedication to AFS, Carol Ann has and continues to volunteer at the grass roots levels of AFS. A fellow volunteer writes, “Carol Ann Zimmerman is the epitome of a grassroots AFS volunteer—recruiter, supporter, advocate.”
Carol Ann started the AFS School Club which continues to be active and fundraise and to which a fellow volunteer writes, “Carol Ann sponsors and provides unending encouragement to the AFS Club at Sublette High School, thereby not only demonstrating AFS as a sponsoring organization, but perhaps more importantly providing an example to the students of volunteer service as a practicality rather than just a theoretical concept.”
Carol Ann is currently the Area Team Treasurer and continues to serve in numerous volunteer roles. She has hosted 13 times, finds host families, trains liaisons, and helps with arrival orientations, to name just a few.
Carol Ann will be presented her award at the 2010 AFS-USA National Volunteer Assembly, to be held in Nashville, TN April 9-11, 2010.
The Galatti Award was established in 1983 and named after AFS founder Stephen Galatti. Since 1983, this award has honored AFS community volunteers whose commitment and exceptional dedication have advanced the mission and goals of AFS at the grass-roots level. It is the most prestigious commendation granted by the AFS International Board of Trustees for our volunteers. Throughout AFS, volunteerism is key in carrying out its mission of making it possible for individuals to become responsible global citizens as well as active participants in the creation of a more tolerant and peaceful world.
Please join us in congratulating Carol Ann in being selected as one of the 2009 AFS International Galatti Award Winners and for enthusiastically promoting the mission of AFS through her deeds and actions
