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Tanzania Education Program Wins $1 Million Prize
Nov. 19, 2007

WASHINGTON (Religion News Service) - The Catholic founder of an education program for refugees from central Africa has won a $1 million prize for his humanitarian work from Catholic University and The Opus Foundation.

The fourth annual Opus Prize went to Brother Constant Goetschalckx, a member of the Brothers of Charity who began the AHADI International Institute in Tanzania 10 years ago.

Goetschalckx's program offers high school- and college-level education to 26,000 refugees every year. It began when refugees from war-stricken Congo, Rwanda and Burundi began to pour into Tanzania.

The other two finalists, who will receive $100,000 each, were the Rev. John Adams, president of SOME (So Others Might Eat) in Washington, D.C., and the Homeless People's Federation Philippines, represented by the Rev. Norberto Carcellar, its executive director.