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 | Walkers aim to ease poverty |
 About 5,000 raise $900K for sustainable development overseas
KATIE TURNER
FOR METRO CALGARY
June 14, 2010 5:05 a.m.
Thousands of Calgarians took steps towards the solution to global poverty yesterday during the World Partnership Walk in Prince’s Island Park.
Now in its 26th year, the walk is an initiative of the Aga Khan Foundation of Canada and raises funds which go directly towards sustainable development in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, said long-time volunteer and spokesperson Rehana Rajabali.
“Over the last 25 years across the country, $50 million has been raised,” she said, adding that 100 per cent of the profits go towards the overseas projects.
Rajabali said she has been participating in the walk since she was about six and has a personal connection to the event.
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admin writes "International Women’s Day brings women from around the world to the Ismaili Centre, London
After hearing the professor discuss gender issues in her home country, Mison Eljiadi had to speak up.
She was eager to share her perspective on how the status of women in Libya has improved over the past four decades. The 35-year-old dentist who lives in Surrey told the American-born lecturer that she feels in-between cultures, tugged by her strong Libyan roots and the draw from the West.
For Eljiadi, it was an unexpected gift to celebrate International Women’s Day at the Ismaili Centre, London, and hear Dr Kathryn Spellman Poots, Assistant Professor at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, talk analytically about the country that shaped most of her life.
“I was very happy because no one generally knows about Libya,” said Eljiadi. “I was happy Kathryn had been there a few times.”
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