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From 2001 to 2008, over 320 Aboriginal students from every province spanning
British Columbia to Newfoundland and Labrador as well as the Yukon and Nunavut
territories have participated in The Asper Foundation Human Rights and Holocaust
Studies Program. The
Asper Foundation has directly contributed almost half a million dollars for the
participation of these students.
The Asper Foundation offers its heartfelt condolences to Mrs. Annette Lantos
and the Lantos family on the untimely passing of Congressman Tom Lantos.
Congressman Lantos was a man of true integrity, vision and justice. The Asper
Foundation is forever indebted to him and Mrs. Lantos for their meetings in the
past several years with hundreds of Canadian students participating in The Asper
Foundation Human Rights and Holocaust Studies Program.
The Asper Foundation is now accepting feedback and notes of appreciation
from the participants in the Human Rights and Holocaust Studies Program via the
new form-based system on this website.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
One of the major initiatives of The Asper Foundation is its Human Rights and Holocaust Studies Program. The program objectives are to promote tolerance and sensitize Canadian grade nine age high school students to the consequences of racism through a specially designed education program. This program, which started in 1997 in Winnipeg, Canada, is now a national initiative that is inclusive of students from many backgrounds. It is the recipient of the 2004 Human Rights Award from the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission “in recognition of (its) creative means of advancing and protecting human rights and working to address racism in our communities.”
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