
Cade Bedochel smau, a 15-year-old high school student in Palau, found a missing wallet containing $536 on Oct. 22 and handed it to the school office and asked if they could find it and return it to the owner.
The exemplary character of this young man has not been overlooked, and yesterday, on the day of the annual celebration of the rop and the 2019 annual staff event, President Tommy E.remengesau Jr. presented the young man with the Presidential Exemplary Citizen Award in recognition of him.
Speaking of the boy's exemplary behaviour, President Tommy E.remengesau Jr. said: "The young man found a wallet of more than $500, he did not have a job and he most likely needed the money to buy what he wanted, but he chose to find the owner and returned the wallet unchanged. ”。
The Exemplary Citizen Award is accompanied by $500 in cash, which the child's mother receives on his behalf.