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Congratulations and good luck to Year 12 student Leo Mwape who won the recent Manawatū Regional Race Unity Speech competition and will now go on to compete in the national finals in Auckland in June.  This will be Leo’s second involvement in the national finals after also winning the regional event in 2022.  This year’s theme was ‘Nurture the Young’ and Leo’s speech centred on a forest metaphor – in a forest young trees grow up to replace the older trees and we see similar in society where young people are nurtured to be the next generation of adults.  We wish Leo all the best for the national finals.