A pair of Edmonton students are supposed to be in France right now, commemorating the 103rd anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
Like many students, however, they’re at home. Anuj Krishnan and Linda Kemigisha are two of just 20 students to win the Vimy Pilgrimage Award.
The students were selected to go out of hundreds of applicants from across Canada. The fully-funded program takes teens to Belgium and France for a week leading up to April 9 to study Canada’s contribution to the First World War.
The trip was put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “I was looking forward to it quite a bit,” said Kemigisha, a Grade 12 student at Strathcona Composite High School. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus