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With a bachelor’s degree in social work from the Université de Sherbrooke, Pierre-Luc Bossé is convinced that all battles can indeed be won and his personal goal is to help form “multipliers” who, like him, will dedicate their energies and imagination to improving the well-being of humanity. And, to say the least, the young man definitely practices what he preaches. Following two decisive internships spent among the most destitute, one in Nicaragua and one in Peru, he pulls up his sleeves and is actively involved in more ways than one. He hosts a suicide prevention group; he promotes fair trade; as a member of an ecology and social services committee, he organizes conferences; and he provides support to immigrants integrating Québec. Just recently, he successfully carried out a major project by setting up Jade, a solidarity cooperative that gives people who wish to become socially involved an affordable and fulfilling living environment. The cooperative will soon be opening its own traditional baker’s shop which employs immigrants, providing them with their first job in Québec, that is to say, in their homeland.
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Brought up on the Mashteuiatsh Indian reserve, David Gill has a bachelor’s degree in English language teaching and is a true example of excellence and determination. Upon entering Université Laval, he rapidly became an exemplary role model. In addition to appearing several times on the honour roll for his academic achievements, he was twice elected Canadian university track athlete of the year. Honoured by the Québec National Assembly as well as the Governor-General of Canada, David Gill was a member of the Canadian delegation at the Turkey Universiades and will be on the Canadian team at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. At the moment, he is training for the Olympic Games in Beijing. His objective? To excel, of course, yet also to share his ideology and self-discipline with extremely disadvantaged Native children. As a spokesperson and lecturer for the Assembly of First Nations of Québec and Labrador, he meets with these youngsters in order to encourage them to find work and fulfill their dreams and even founded the Pas à pas vers la santé des Premières Nations program which promotes mental equilibrium through sports.
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Yunlu Shen, a civil engineering student at McGill University, pours all her talents into advocating a global vision which is at once modern yet respects both communities and cultures. And her talents are manifold. As well as pursuing studies in a complex discipline, she masters the piano and even participated in a competition at Davis Senior High School in California. Captain of a badminton team, president of an astronomy club, member of an environmental group, co-publisher of Output, the student magazine of McGill University’s Faculty of Engineering, she also helped build a pedestrian bridge during a visit to the village of Gansu, China that has been awarded a prize for architecture. Yunlu is also committed at the social level and helped organize the first two editions of an annual conference for future women engineers. She is the vice-president and a member of numerous committees of the Engineering Students’ Society at McGill University, the recipient of an award from the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec and gives lectures on the future of a profession in which she has already made her mark.
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The career path of Florence Larocque, a bachelor of international studies graduate from the Université de Montréal, is as varied as it is singular. This particularly gifted student has accumulated prizes, honourable mentions and scholarships including, as early as the end of her high school years, the Governor-General’s Academic Bronze Medal. During her collegiate studies, she was chosen to co-represent Québec at Leading the Future, an international congress of international baccalaureate students held in Toronto. At once curious, motivated, polyvalent and forever torn between the needs of her community and world emergencies, she quite literally devotes her time to organizations located both here and abroad. In Québec, she lends her support to the Université de Montréal’s Community and Humanitarian Action Services and the Rivers Foundation. Abroad, she gives of her time to Cáritas Argentina in Buenos Aires and a day camp for destitute children in Haiti. In a small fishing village in northern Chile, she heightened awareness of environmental issues among children and set up an ecotourism project. Equality and justice are an integral part of all her activities, both here and abroad.
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After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in medical biology, the talented and visionary Louis-Philippe Hubert went on to enrol in the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Sherbrooke. Up to date, this scholarship holder and research assistant has participated in so many projects, which together have mapped out the path to be taken by future doctors, that his list of achievements seems to be endless. Over a period of only a few years, he co-founded MÉDaction, which acts as a link between medical students at the Université de Sherbrooke and the region’s charitable organizations, the Amnesty International information office on the Campus de la santé, the Club-MED de Sherbrooke, which promotes family medicine among future doctors, and organized the first interuniversity convention on alternative and complementary medicine. The author of a book entitled Le courage des rêves on the importance of fulfilling one’s dreams, he also published a study accompanied by recommendations on the quality of life of medical students, suggestions that were enthusiastically received by the Canadian Medical Association.
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Bruce Carlini has a bachelor’s degree in history and another in political science, and is now commencing studies in international law at McGill University with the avowed goal of helping everyone reach their full potential without having to contend with poverty and injustice. A great number of highly diverse activities bear witness to the social involvement of this admirer of Mohandas Ghandi and Nelson Mandela: at Concordia University, he was both co-president and a member of Amnesty International’s executive committee and the co-director of Action Sida. He also gave of his time to the Montréal branch of Slow Food Québec, which promotes agricultural biodiversity, and to do volunteer work for the Santropol roulant organization, which distributes food aid to the elderly. The founder of STAND Concordia, a student collective devoted to asserting their indignation at the violation of human rights in Darfur, he also writes articles, organizes seminars, gives lectures and hosts forums. Nothing can stop this future advocate of social justice who this year received an award from Concordia University for his exceptional contribution to life on campus.
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An energetic and enthusiastic citizen of the world, Lisa Arsenault is already, for us all, an essential resource for international development. Her achievements are numerous and striking: in the spring of 2005, her film Welcome to Canada, rien à déclarer?, a mouthpiece for foreign students in Rimouski, was presented in over 40 high schools and colleges and even at Université Laval. The film’s huge success gave the young woman wings and she went on to Benin to shoot Afrika’Dî, a film which examines how international aid is perceived by the citizens of underprivileged countries. Regularly invited as guest lecturer, an intern with the Québec Without Borders program and a project representative for an international cooperation program, Lisa is so strongly committed that she is often the instigator of her own projects. Her latest initiative will enable the Sahel to develop its market gardening. With a bachelor’s degree in geography and cultural development, her aim is to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor thanks to information, cooperation, responsibility and commitment.
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Ever since an internship in Haiti where he witnessed the devastating effects of tuberculosis, a nonetheless controllable disease, Samuel Vaillancourt is determined to provide treatment not only for individuals but also for society as a whole. In a multitude of ways, with inexhaustible energy, he rallies people to his cause and carries out his actions. In Montréal, he devotes time to Horizons, a tutorial project for youngsters in underprivileged neighbourhoods as well as to the Community Health Action Partnership (CHAP) project, which permits medical students to do volunteer work for community organizations and thus witness first-hand the most concrete and striking needs. Abroad, he develops strategies in family planning and STD prevention in Burkina Faso and takes a keen interest in the physical and dietary well-being of children in the rural communities of Ecuador. His initiatives, wherever they are carried out, are always committed, formative and based on a continuing search for tangible and lasting results. On the eve of undertaking a master’s degree in public health, Samuel is already what he dreams of becoming: “a researcher capable of addressing the heath of individuals within the context of the health of society as a whole.
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