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Two amazing young women selected LA County Youth of the Year (continued)
“A shining example for our youth.”
An honors senior at Culver City High School, Olamide, or “Mide” as she is known to friends, became a Club member at 9 after her father left her family to return to Nigeria to work. Her mother enrolled her and her two sisters to provide a safe place during nonschool hours. Mide says the supportive Club staff helped her adjust during this time in her life.
According to Aaron Young, the Club’s CPO, “Over the last eight years Mide has been an absolute champion of making the right choices. Taking a total of five buses and picking up her sisters along the way, she is always at the Club tutoring other members or working as a junior staff member. The desire to continuously challenge herself fuels this outstanding young lady to be the first college graduate in her family.”
“A wonderful young woman.”
Jasmin Garcia is an outstanding senior at Lakewood High School who dreams of one day attending Yale Law School.
Enrolled in numerous advanced placement classes, she is also a member of her school’s Student Council and the Merit Scholar Academy in addition to her work at the Boys & Girls Club of Long Beach.
“We could not have picked a better young woman to represent us,” says Executive Director Don Rodriguez. “Jasmin makes a 45-minute bus ride every day to get to the Club where she mentors the younger members.”
In addition to her work with younger Club members, who Jasmin says are “the reason she loves the Club,” she is also president of Club’s teen group, Keystone and has volunteered over 400 hours at the Club and in the community!
