• $5000 will provide food & coffee for one year to 10,000 homeless individuals
  • $3500 will send one individual to a full term of the Ve’ahavta Street Academy
  • $1000 will provide dinner for 150 homeless guests at the Ve’ahavta Passover Seder
  • $500 will provide notebooks to 350 children for one year
  • $250 will sponsor one prize to a winner of the Creative Writing Contest for the homeless
  • $100 will provide coffee for one week to 250 homeless individuals
  • $18 will give one child school supplies for one year
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Ve’ahavta’s Starry Nights Tikun Olam Awards Winners

Ve’ahavta is proud to present the Tikun Olam honourees who have demonstrated leadership and fortitude enhancing the lives of many and inspiring others to literally Repair the World.

2010

Shabir Hussein
Humanitarian Award for facilitating over 30 medical and health care missions to communities in the rainforests of Guyana, through partnerships with local and international organizations, including Lions International.

Bill Glied & Sally Wasserman
Remembrance Award for their continued education and advocacy roles regarding human rights through programs including the March of the Living and the March of Remembrance and Hope, as well as with many other educational organizations.

Dr. Paul & Pedrinah Thistle
Medical Award for providing medical, social and spiritual care to over 100,000 people in rural Zimbabwe each year at the Salvation Army Howard Hospital – Dr Paul as chief medical officer and Pedrinah, as nurse educator and midwife.

Peter Oliver
Education Award for providing hundreds of students in South Africa and Canada the opportunity to learn and thrive, through the establishment of The Triangle of Hope Program, enabling students to support, share and teach each other.

Rebecca Cherniak
Young Leadership Award for her passion and commitment to numerous Jewish student campus initiatives and Israel advocacy, including President of McMaster Israel on Campus and VP Internal of the Canadian Federation of Jewish Students (CFJS).

Dr. Naomi Azrieli
Community Leadership Award for promoting education, research, the arts, and commemoration of the Holocaust as Chair and Executive Director of the Azrieli Foundation, preserving the legacy of survivors and teaching tolerance to students, educators, families and communities.

2009

Ambaro Guled and Nema Dahir
Education award for their significant and continued contribution to educating and supporting newcomers to Canada in the Regent Park. Since 1996 they have coordinated the highly successful Newcomers Homework Club (formerly Somali Homework Club) in collaboration with Frontier College, the University of Toronto, and Ve’ahavta.

Walter Arbib
Humanitarian Award for 20 years tirelessly working to provide humanitarian relief to victims of war, natural disasters and pandemics around the world. SkyLink donates air transportation costs, logistical support, desperately needed food, water, and medical supplies to various communities, irrespective of nationality or religion.

Dr. Michael Silverman
Medical Award for leading 17 medical missions to the rainforests of Guyana since 1993, and as the Medical Team Leader of Ve’ahavta’s annual medical humanitarian relief program, providing health care in remote communities.

David Shore
Philanthropy Award for his generosity and ongoing contribution to liberate, enrich and unify society through humanitarian efforts.

Anita Ekstein
Remembrance Award for her exceptional leadership and ongoing contribution to the memory of the six million Jews who perished during the Holocaust.

Zach Paikin
Youth Leadership Award for his work campaigning against genocide in Darfur, promoting health and wellness among young people, fighting cancer and a community mission to Costa Rica to help repair the world.