On November 14, we held a small online graduation ceremony for the 2023 Diploma in Development Leadership participants.

After their residency at Coady Institute, St. Francis Xavier University the graduates worked to implement social change initiatives in their communities.

Examples of community initiatives include: Storytelling to Raise Communities’ and Rural Women’s Voices in Mali by Agathe Diama; Empowerment of Women Inmates in Byculla Prison by Glasten Mathew Gonsalves; and Strengthening Stakeholder Engagement in Youth and Women Economic Empowerment Projects by Prisca Nandede.

The graduates join a network of more than 10,000 Coady graduates in more than 146 countries globally.

St. Francis Xavier University and Coady Institute stand on the lands of Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded home of the Mi’kmaw. We express our deep gratitude and appreciation to the generations of Mi’kmaw who, since time immemorial, have loved and stewarded these lands and the beings who call them home. Colonization is not just history; it exists in the present tense. While we strive to decolonize ourselves and our University, we know there is still much for us to learn.

We are committed to doing the hard work of self-reflection and to repairing relationships with the Mi’kmaw on whose lands we reside, including embracing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls to Action and embodying their spirit in our plans to move forward with our University.

Ms~t wiaqpulti’kl ankukamkewe’l
We are all treaty people.

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Canada

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