More Guluwalking
I started to keep you posted on the Guluwalk a while ago, and I update the info every time I get something new to share. Today's latest is the announcement of an award being given to Adrian Bradbury, one of the walk's co-founders. Read on.
Toronto, ON, July 14, 2006 GuluWalks Adrian Bradbury is among the first of six Canadians to be awarded Global Youth Fellowships by The Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation today. This new program recognizes and supports young Canadians who work in the international arena on the most pressing challenges of this century including political unrest, climate change, human rights and global health pandemics.Bradbury is the co-founder and director of GuluWalk an event that started with just two people in Toronto and now takes place in countries around the world to raise awareness for Ugandan children impacted by war and for their nightly walks into towns like Gulu to avoid rebel groups intent on kidnapping them and turning them into child soldiers and sex slaves. In 2005, Macleans magazine named him one of its newsmakers of the year. The Toronto-native will use his Fellowship to develop tools for civil society to support the United Nations responsibility to protect policy which holds the international community accountable to intervention when a nation is clearly unwilling or unable to protect their own citizens.Canadians, like Adrian, play an extremely valuable role internationally, with the potential to make measurable improvements to the lives of so many around the world and at the same time enhancing Canada's reputation on the world stage, said Patrick Johnston, President, Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation. The Global Youth Fellowship was created to encourage younger Canadians to continue their efforts to find innovative and constructive ways to make an impact on these tough global challenges.
The Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation was established in 1965 by Walter Lockhart Gordon, his wife, Elizabeth, and brother, Duncan. As a registered charitable foundation, The Foundation aspires to the ideal of a sovereign Canada that is dedicated to the security and well being of all Canadians and committed to tolerance, pluralism and democratic participation. The Foundation is dedicated to the development of sound and innovative public policies, founded on those values fundamental to Canadians, and designed to foster the continuing evolution of a dynamic and independent Canada. For more information on the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation please visit www.gordonfn.org.
Toronto, ON, July 14, 2006 GuluWalks Adrian Bradbury is among the first of six Canadians to be awarded Global Youth Fellowships by The Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation today. This new program recognizes and supports young Canadians who work in the international arena on the most pressing challenges of this century including political unrest, climate change, human rights and global health pandemics.Bradbury is the co-founder and director of GuluWalk an event that started with just two people in Toronto and now takes place in countries around the world to raise awareness for Ugandan children impacted by war and for their nightly walks into towns like Gulu to avoid rebel groups intent on kidnapping them and turning them into child soldiers and sex slaves. In 2005, Macleans magazine named him one of its newsmakers of the year. The Toronto-native will use his Fellowship to develop tools for civil society to support the United Nations responsibility to protect policy which holds the international community accountable to intervention when a nation is clearly unwilling or unable to protect their own citizens.Canadians, like Adrian, play an extremely valuable role internationally, with the potential to make measurable improvements to the lives of so many around the world and at the same time enhancing Canada's reputation on the world stage, said Patrick Johnston, President, Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation. The Global Youth Fellowship was created to encourage younger Canadians to continue their efforts to find innovative and constructive ways to make an impact on these tough global challenges.
The Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation was established in 1965 by Walter Lockhart Gordon, his wife, Elizabeth, and brother, Duncan. As a registered charitable foundation, The Foundation aspires to the ideal of a sovereign Canada that is dedicated to the security and well being of all Canadians and committed to tolerance, pluralism and democratic participation. The Foundation is dedicated to the development of sound and innovative public policies, founded on those values fundamental to Canadians, and designed to foster the continuing evolution of a dynamic and independent Canada. For more information on the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation please visit www.gordonfn.org.
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