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African refugee outreach program gets $1 million Opus Prize
Nov. 14, 2007

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Opus Prize Foundation, in partnership with The Catholic University of America, awarded a $1 million prize Nov. 8 to a Tanzanian organization founded by Brother Constant Goetschalckx that educates refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. Brother Goetschalckx, a member of the Brothers of Charity from Belgium who is known as Brother Stan, said he sees the prize as a "sign that God is continuing to go the journey with us." The money will be "transformational," added Anthony Buatti, a senior at Catholic University who has traveled to Tanzania as the university's representative. He spoke at the campus dinner where Brother Goetschalckx accepted the award. The two other awards finalists -- Father John Adams, president of So Others Might Eat in Washington, and Vincentian Father Norberto Carcellar, executive director of the Homeless People's Federation Philippines -- each received an award of $100,000.