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2017 Leadership Award - Lower Mainland
Blanca Salvatierra
Consummate community-builder creates professional and social opportunities that help newcomers thrive.
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2017 Innovation Award - Lower Mainland
Kalvinder Kular
Kalvinder is so very deserving of the Innovation Award. She has been able to use her genius with interior design to innovate Early Childhood Education practice at Collingwood Early Learning and Care. Kai has not only redesigned the child care program she manages, but also has shared her aesthetic eye with other child care programs. […]
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2017 Dedication Award - Lower Mainland
Eva Boese
Since 1989, Eva has contributed her skills. leadership and passion to Yew Transition House, a shelter for women and children seeking safety from abuse run by Sunshine Coast Community Services. In this time, Eva has played a key role in developing this program from its beginnings as a burgeoning, feminist, grassroots service with minimal staffing […]
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2017 Dedication Award - Lower Mainland
Mhairi Campbell
Mhairi Campbell is an exemplary employee who has demonstrated incredible dedication to our organization. Mhairi started as our Manager of Volunteer Resources and Community Services in February 2014. In this role, she was responsible for recruiting, screening, orienting, training, retaining and recognizing our team of 230 volunteers across our three locations, and updating our volunteer […]
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2017 Dedication Award - Lower Mainland
Amos Kambere
When I think of the word “dedication,” Amos Kambera is a man who encompasses and displays what this word truly means. Amos has shown selfless leadership and committed countless volunteer hours to supporting newcomer immigrant and refugee families at Umoja Operation Compassion Society. Amos has continued to volunteer as Executive Director to ensure that the […]
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2017 Leadership Award - Lower Mainland
Kimberly Barwich
Kimberly Barwich has dedicated her career and whole self to developing the inclusive Burnaby Neighbourhood House (BNH) that exists today. Hired as the lone staff member in 1999, she accepted a part-time job of program coordinator. Kimberly supported the board of directors to set up a very small storefront that became a welcoming place and […]
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2017 Leadership Award - Lower Mainland
Alexis DeClercq
I believe Alexis Declercq should be recognized as an employee to receive the Bhayana Family Foundation Award for Leadership for inspiring program partIcipants and staff, while building strong relationships within the organization and community. Her ability to juggle Little Mountain Neighbourhoods’ Schools Out program in five schools and run the CREW pre-teen drop-in program while […]
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2016 Innovation Award - Lower Mainland
Karin Rai
Karin was instrumental in introducing the Mental Wellness Parenting Program into the community of Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows and then into various communities around the Lower Mainland including Langley, Abbotsford and Agassiz/Hope. Work is taking place to introduce the program in Tri-Cities and Surrey. Karin worked with her early ideas to improve services to parents living […]
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2016 Innovation Award - Lower Mainland
Rupi Sahota
Rupi has worked as a legal advocate with Sources Community Resources Society’s Family Law Program for 11 years. Rupi is passionate about working with women who are experiencing violence in the South Asian community. Being of South Asian descent, she is keenly aware of the barriers and challenges that South Asian women face in accessing […]
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2016 Leadership Award - Lower Mainland
Shauna Mokelki
Shauna Mokelki manages I hope family centre, Family Services of the North Shore’s busy multi-faceted family resource program with ease and incredible competence. She knows how to empower her staff, encourages them to take responsibility for improvements they want to see, and supports them to make changes. She understands each staff members’ strengths and enlists […]
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