Nanda Kishore Daggupati is in Tamil Nadu, India, where he has facilitated a partnership between Chudar, an organization that works to improve the quality of education for children from underprivileged backgrounds, and the Tamil Nadu government for his initiative, Educational Development through Research, Consulting, and Policy.
“Each [recipient] has been an exceptional person, doing great things for their communities and the causes they have championed. Hearing their stories, and what the award means to them, inspires us, and gives us some satisfaction that our efforts to honour Katie by enabling others, has been achieved.”
Read the April edition of The Coady Connection. We are pleased to share with you this collection of stories, accomplishments, and news from the past three months.
The Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program is offering an extended deadline. The new deadline to apply is April 14.
“The award is a reminder that limitations only hold us back if we let them,” Musola says. “It represents the ability to do things beyond limitations despite all sorts of obstacles.”
In 2011, Mycel Acquaah-Mensah travelled far from her home in Ghana to attend Coady International Institute’s Diploma in Development Leadership in Canada.
Fourteen Indigenous women leaders concluded Coady’s five-month Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program with a virtual graduation ceremony March 1.
Coady graduate is vying for a seat in the Malawi National Assembly as Member of Parliament of the country’s capital city of Lilongwe.
“I am proud to be one of the few young ladies to get this kind of award,” Grace says. “The award has given me strength to do even more.”
“I have helped a new community down the road in Truro [Nova Scotia] to start up an accessible swimming program,” O’Dwyer says. “This was a huge success and a great surprise. We are now just waiting to see how the trial period goes!”