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Opus Prize recipients may not be household names, but don't be fooled by their relative anonymity. The Opus Prize winner and finalists are making all the difference in their communities and their countries.
In these recipients, an unshakeable faith and a belief in entrepreneurship mingle and the results are stunning.
2007 $1 million Opus Prize Winner
Brother Stan Goetschalckx
AHADI International Institute
Kigoma, Tanzania
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.
2007 $100,000 Opus Prize Finalists
Father John Adams
So Others Might Eat (SOME)
Washington, D.C.
Father John Adams is president of SOME (So Others Might Eat), an interfaith non-profit organization that serves the poor and homeless in Washington, D.C. Father Adams has directed SOME for the past 29 years and under his leadership, SOME has grown from a soup kitchen serving 50 to 60 people daily with a single employee and two volunteers to an organization that serves more than 800 meals a day and offers a clinic, dental services, job training, addiction treatment, counseling and affordable housing to the poor, elderly and individuals with mental illness. Today, SOME has a staff of 250 employees and several thousand volunteers. Father Adams ensures the staff and volunteers live by SOME's mission to restore hope and dignity one person at a time. For more information, visit www.some.org.
Homeless People's Federation Philippines
Rev. Norberto Carcellar representing the Homeless People's Federation
Quezon City, Philippines
Homeless People’s Federation Philippines represented by Rev. Norberto Carcellar, C.M., executive director, is an organization that has enabled squatters living on a sprawling garbage dump in Quezon City, Philippines to create community savings and credit programs, purchase land, build housing and set up waste disposal and water distribution systems.
