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He volunteers in raising awareness of post- traumatic stress disorder, supports a troop- morale program that makes links between the Canadian Forces and community first- responders, and is involved with the Children's Wish Foundation. Fleury leads the Teulon and District Food Bank in providing food hampers twice a month to low- income families in the area. She also formed a local Christmas Cheer Board, which delivers up to 65 hampers of clothing, toys and food each year during the holiday season. She brought local high school student volunteers on board to help put together the hampers. Houston has volunteered with the Shriners for more than 35 years and was the Khartum Shriners Hospital chairman for 15 years. Under his leadership, the first Shriners Hospitals Satellite Orthopedic Clinic opened in Winnipeg to serve children and their families from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nunavut and northwestern Ontario. Michalyshen and Reader began International HOPE Canada Inc., a non- profit organization that collects refurbished medical equipment for distribution to clinics and hospitals in less- developed countries around the world. Williams volunteers with numerous organizations such as Polar Bears International, the Manitoba Forestry Association, Fish Futures, the Winnipeg Canoe Club and the Fort Gary Horse Regiment, where he chaired the Fort Gary Horse Centennial Committee. For more information on this award, visit www. gg. ca/ caring. Caring Canadian Award goes to six Manitobans O LDER kids mentoring younger ones to hold down their waistlines and avoid diabetes isn't just a good idea - it has $ 2 million over five years for further research. An international conference in Winnipeg is slated for next September to get similar ideas from around the world. " The federal government is on board now and it's a multimillion- dollar research project," Child and Youth Opportunities Minister Kevin Chief said in an interview Tuesday. Chief said the federal grant from the Canadian Institute for Health Research had not previously been publicly announced. " The idea of mentoring is fascinating - it's exactly the kind of things I've spent my career on," said Chief, who previously developed education and physical activity programs for innercity children for the University of Winnipeg and River East Transcona School Division. University of Manitoba and Healthy Child Manitoba researchers released findings Monday of a study of 647 children in 19 Manitoba schools. Students in grades 5 and 6 mentored children in grades 2 and 3 on nutrition and physical activity. The result was the average child's waistline was 1.42 centimetres less after 10 months of the school year than the norm, adjusted for normal growth in young children. The researchers concluded the Healthy Buddies mentoring program could lead to at least a 15 per cent waistline reduction in those children when they become adults. The $ 2- million grant allows researchers to follow those children's visits to doctors and hospitals, their medications and their academic success, even though the researchers no longer have direct access to the students. Chief wants further research to determine what the long- term effects could be. " The big piece we have to look at is the continued research investment," he said. " Over the 10 months, we've seen some good success." Once Manitoba knows better how the mentoring program works long- term, the province can look at introducing it more broadly in schools, Chief said. " Manitoba does very well on evidence- based programs. It's already attracted national attention," Chief said. " It really had an effect on kids who are poorer." He said the research would especially benefit inner- city children and kids living on remote reserves. " We're holding an international conference in September" that will bring health and education experts to Winnipeg, he said. " We're going to engage them: How does this look for implementation community by community?" nick. martin@ freepress. mb. ca Healthy Buddies has $ 2M to digest Finances research on school mentoring By Nick Martin JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS At the Caring Canadian Awards on Tuesday at Government House: Back row from left, Roma Maconachie for award winner Phyllis Reader, Sonia Michalyshen, Robert Raymond Williams and Craig Houston. Front row from left, Nancy Fleury, Anita Lee, Lt.- Gov. Philip Lee and Julian Austin. A_ 05_ Feb- 12- 14_ FP_ 01. indd A5 2/ 11/ 14 11: 18: 39 PM ;