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Past Winners2007
Brother Constant Goetschalckx, F.C., founder and director of AHADI International Institute, Tanzania, leads this organization with a Swahili name that means “working toward the fulfillment of a promise.” AHADI educates refugees from the war-torn countries of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi by providing post-secondary training via a distance-learning program and instruction for 26,000 students per year studying for their high school diplomas. $100,000 Opus Prize Finalists: Father John Adams Homeless People's Federation Philippines 2006
Dr. Zilda Arns Neumann, a pediatrician who founded and leads Pastoral da Criança (the Pastoral of the Child), an innovative public health program that works with more than 265,000 volunteers to help poor families in her native Brazil, will receive the third annual Opus Prize in a Nov. 8 ceremony hosted by the University of Notre Dame. $100,000 Opus Prize Finalists: Sister Ann Kendrick Father John Foley 2005
Rev. Trevor Miranda founded and runs a system of 450 literacy centers in India known as the Reach Education Action Programme. Students discover an oasis of opportunity that stands in stark contrast to the bleak factories and garbage dumps in which they otherwise would be forced to work. REAP has also grown to include training programs for women to learn valuable professional and life skills and to develop the conviction that they can be agents of social change in their families and communities. $100,000 Opus Prize Finalists: Dr. Juliana Akinyi Otieno Rev. William Wasson (deceased) 2004
In 1976, Monsignor Richard Albert arrived in Kingston, Jamaica, from the Bronx, NY. Intent on breaking the vicious cycle of poverty in Jamaica, Msgr. Albert has spent 27 years establishing a vast network of charities and institutions that provides Jamaica's poor with the basic services and skills that have transformed the lives of thousands. |
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