Three people to be honored with humanitarian awards

CHAMPAIGN – Three individuals and two groups will be honored Thursday as recipients of the 2009 Champaign-Urbana International Humanitarian Awards.

Robert Nelson, Jeanette Weider and Jonathan Woods have been named winners of individual awards, while the University of Illinois chapter of Engineers Without Borders and Caring for Kenya will receive organization awards.

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