WELCOMING PARTICIPANTS BACK to CAMPUS

In 2022, as Covid-19 safety measures eased, we welcomed participants back to campus for three programs for women, youth, and Indigenous community leaders. The value of bringing people together to share and learn in person remains an integral part of our projects and education programs.

The Institute’s International Centre for Women’s Leadership hosted 18 participants from 16 different countries for seven weeks for the Global Change Leaders (GCL) program. These participants from developing countries came to strengthen their leadership capacities to contribute towards a feminist and just world. GCL participants Vera Elikem Awuye (Ghana) and Saliwe Mutetwa-Zakariya (Zimbabwe) were Katherine Fleming International Development Award recipients.

The Pathy Foundation Fellowship welcomed six participants for the intensive, immersive, 12-month experiential-learning opportunity in youth leadership and community engagement. The fellowship provides comprehensive training, dedicated ongoing support, and $40,000 in funding to equip graduating students from five Canadian partner universities (Bishop’s University, McGill University, Queen’s University, University of Ottawa, and St. Francis Xavier University) with the best possible tools and supports to grow as leaders, make an impact in a community they are connected with, and gain competencies that will serve them for life.

Grounded in relational practices and mentorship opportunities, the Indigenous Women in Community Leadership (IWCL) program welcomed 15 participants to campus in 2022. IWCL’s approaches to development and social change are rooted in individual and collective responsibility; reciprocity to community; and relationship to one another and to the land. The program is delivered through Coady Institute’s Circle of Abundance.

I don’t think there’s any where you would want to learn more about community development and programs that change lives better than at Coady…. It gives you that opportunity to even strengthen your own values of non-discrimination, of tolerance, of building together through teamwork. Everybody needs to come and experience this for themselves. I can’t put it in words. It’s an experience that you need to have and there you can testify to it.

- VERA ELIKEM AWUYE (GHANA) GLOBAL CHANGE LEADERS