Farmington student Anna Preston awarded UTC/YMCA Youth Citizenship Award

Anna Preston of Farmington was awarded one of four United Technologies/ YMCA Wesley A. Kuhrt Youth Citizenship Awards for Community Service at the YMCA of Greater Hartford’s recent annual meeting. The awards are made in memory of a man known for his outstanding volunteer and professional leadership, the late Wesley A. Kuhrt, who was president of Sikorsky Aircraft and a former United Technologies Corporation Senior Vice President.

Preston’s community service supports Not For Sale, a student abolitionist network dedicated to support for the victims of human trafficking, and education on the issue. Anna has served as one of the assistant event planners for the annual Freedom Walk supporting Not for Sale.

Anna has also dedicated her time and talents to Hoops for Hope, an organization that builds clinics for AIDS patients in Florida, and the Hartford City Mission, where she tutors inner-city children and leads group activities.

Preston is a junior at Miss Porter's School, and is a member of the Wheeler Regional Family YMCA in Plainville. 

The UTC/YMCA Youth Citizenship Awards are presented annually to young YMCA program participants ages 15 to 20, who have strongly demonstrated an ongoing commitment to volunteer service. Through their experience at the YMCA, applicants and winners alike learn the YMCA core values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility, helping them to become positive role models and leaders in their communities.

Submitted by YMCA of Plainville.