Official Press Release from Tufts University
“Delicious Peace” wins the Dr. Jean Mayer Award!
Official Press Release from Tufts University
Dr. Jean Mayer Award Press Release
Tufts Institute for Global Leadership is proud to announce the presentation of the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citzenship Award to the Peace Kawomera Fair Trade Coffee Cooperative in Mbale, Uganda together with its partners Thanksgiving Coffee Company of Fort Bragg, California and the organization Kulanu (All of Us), a grassroots, US volunteer not-for-profit Jewish organization working with communities around the world.
Dr. Jean Mayer, former president of Tufts University, was a world-renowned nutritionist and scholar who advised three U.S. Presidents (Nixon, Ford, Carter) on issues of hunger and nutrition. This award was established “…To honor Jean Mayer, by challenging and inspiring our students and the University community, by bringing to Tufts distinguished scholars and practitioners whose moral courage, personal integrity, and passion for scholarship resonated his dictum that “Scholarship, research and teaching must be dedicated to solving the most pressing problems facing the world.” Sherman Teichman, the Director of the Institute wrote, “On behalf of the Institute, its 2008 EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship) program on”Global Poverty and Inequality,” Tufts University, and the Dr. Jean Mayer family, I want to convey our deep satisfaction at being able to acknowledge and assist your wonderful innovative and powerful efforts on behalf of alleviating poverty, creating accountable and sustainable trade practices, encouraging community peace and promoting interfaith harmony.
The Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award was designed to acknowledge exactly such remarkable efforts. And in the process, we wish to acknowledge the Executive Director of Tufts Hillel, Rabbi Jeffrey Summit, who has done superb work to tell the story of this community and support university education for its students.” He continued, “It is an honor to be able to have you all involved in our programs and we look forward to creating a solid partnership with the Institute and EMPOWER into the future as we mentor and encourage Tufts students to engage in the world of accountable, sustainable social entrepreneurship.”
Past recipients of the Dr. Jean Mayer Award include Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Dr. Paul Farmer, author Samantha Power and economist John Kenneth Galbraith.
The award ceremony and presentation will take place at Tufts University on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 8:00 PM at Cabot Auditorium. A delegation from the Peace Kawomera Cooperative including representatives from the Muslim, Jewish, Anglican and Catholic community, as well as Ben Corey-Moran and Holly Moskowitz of the Thanksgiving Coffee Company and Laura Wetzler of Kulanu will be present to speak about the work of the cooperative and to receive the award. The event will be cosponsored with Tufts Hillel which will join in hosting a dinner for the award recipients in conjunction with their Merrin Distinguished Lecture Series “Moral Voices” program.
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JJ Keki shares his feelings upon hearing this good news:
We PKC (peace kawomera cooperative) feel so grateful for having been chosen among
people who are using peaceful weapons to bring peace
onto this planet.
We never new that our call of preaching peace would
reach to such an International institute and be
awarded such a prestigious gift.
Although my dream is to see no wars any where, any
more; I feel very happy that I am not alone but I have
partners who are on my side. Some of the partners who
decided to work for peace Are the Thanks Giving
Coffee Company, the United Religious Initiative and
now the Tufts University.
We want to assure this world that we soon to win the
war peacefully.
Yours J J for PKC