Katherine Fleming International Development Award Recipient

Vera Elikem Awuye

Country: Ghana

Current Organization:  International Needs Ghana

Organization at the time you received Katie Fleming Award from Coady:  International Needs Ghana

In the video below, Vera and fellow award recipient Saliwe Mutetwa-Zakariya share their experiences at Coady and what this award means to them.

Vera Elikem Awuye

This award is inspiration and motivation for me to continue the work Katherine Fleming started to end child poverty and also to advance advocacy in child rights and gender equality to ensure that more children, adolescent and families live in a more safe, protective and just environment around the world.

Vera Elikem Awuye

2022 Katherine Fleming International Development Award recipient

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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