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For a better future for our children

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years ago the Canadian Palestinian Professional Foundation (CPPF) was conceived; a great achievement for all Palestinian Canadians and our motherland.

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On behalf of all board members we would like to send a warm welcome to all of you and thank you for joining us in celebrating our sixth annual gala and supporting our organization in building an education for Palestinians worldwide.

The primary theme of our sixth annual gala will focus on celebrating “land and culture”.

This theme aligns perfectly with CPPF’s mission, as preservation of one’s “land and culture” is achieved through educational investment in our future generation.

Since our conception, we, as an organization have been able to cultivate multiple meaningful relationships with various organizations. One of the primary organizations that has collaborated in bringing the CPPF’s mission to life is the United Nations Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) group.

It has now been 5 years since we started our collaborative relationship with the UNRWA group and as an organization, we are seeing the fruits of our labor come to life through the graduation of our students. Two examples of our graduates are Nassaim and Mona.

Nassaim recently graduated from Al-Quds University and is currently working as a Dentist in the West Bank. Mona has also graduated from Deir El-Balah University, started a new family, looking for a job and considers pursuing her masters degree in the future.

Four other students have also graduated with the help of the CPPF’s sponsorship funds.

Some are currently applying for jobs to kickstart their careers, while others will continue their masters degree. This is an exciting achievement for our organization, as it will allow new students to fill these vacancies and begin their journey as part of the CPPF family. Your continuous support and encouragement will provide us with the required resources to support our students and help them in developing a better life for themselves and their families.

To conclude, we would like to thank our guests, friends and family across the world for their continuous support. We would also like to send out a special thank you to our wonderful sponsors, silent auction donors, and volunteers for their continuous support in organizing a successful gala on an annual basis.

Tarek Khalifih President

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A Letter from the Scholars Honourable members of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Palestinian Professional Foundation Greeting, I am the student Nasaeem Abdel Rahim Fahad Dar Soliman from Palestine, I received a grant from the Canadian Palestinian Foundation for my high school graduation with an average of (95.4) in (2013). I graduated this year (2018) from the University of Jerusalem / University of the capital and received a bachelor's degree in the specialty of oral and dental surgery through the financial support provided by the Canadian Palestinian Professional Foundation Many thanks to this charitable institution and wish it further progress and success in order to support the educational process and development in the fields of life and provide good and strive to build productive figures in society.

Best regards, Nasaeem Dar Soliman

Dear all, My name is Mona. I graduated this year with a very good average. I want to thank you and everyone in the CPPF for your support. Without you I couldn’t make it. Thank you for being there for me whenever I needed you. You are here and listen to us like we are your daughters.

P.S. I got married and expecting a baby boy and planning to finish my masters after.

My name is Afnan, I graduated this year 2018 with honors from Al-Khaleel University in Hebron-AlKhaleel and hoping to continue my masters degree.

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Proudly Presenting a New Hall of Fame Member Chris Giannou CM (born 1949) is a Greek Canadian war surgeon and served chief surgeon for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) until December 2006. He was educated at the schools of Toronto. After a year of studies at McGill University, Giannou left Canada to spend a year teaching in Mali. There he fell sick, and was cared for by a team of two French-trained Malian doctors.

Recognizing the doctor's frustration at the disparity between the facilities in which they had been trained and those available to them for practice, Giannou resolved to study medicine within the developing world in order to practice within it.

Dr. Chris Giannou, CM

is a Greek Canadian war surgeon (1949 - Present)

After studies in Algiers, Algeria; Angers, France; and Cairo, Egypt, Giannou went on to begin a surgical career which has taken which has taken him to many of the contemporary world's most mediatized conflict zones, including Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia and Somalia. Although he had trained as a cancer surgeon in Egypt, Giannou began to develop a specialized expertise in war surgery. Giannou is reportedly known among humanitarian workers for his efficiency. He is reputed to be one of the few non-Palestinians to have sat as a member of the Palestine National Council, and is noted for his work as the only surgeon, alongside thousands of Palestinians, during the siege of the Palestinian refugee camp Shatila in 1985–86, documented in his Besieged: A Doctor's Story of Life and Death in Beirut (1991). In 1991, Giannou was inducted as a member of the Order of Canada.

The CPPF is proud to honour the positive contributions that Dr. Chris Giannou made not only in his career, but in the life of Palestinians and life in general.

Dr. Ahmad Teebi

Palestinian Canadian Genecist (1949 - 2010)

Hon. Hazel McCallion Canadian Politician Former Mayor of Mississauga (1921 - Present)

Dr. George Anis Awad

Palestinian Canadian Psychiatrist (1942 - 2007)

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