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Catherine Nichols, who served the EAPPI as interim Programme
Coordinator from April through November 2004, was honored as one
of two recipients of the Bailis Family Social Justice Award at
the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis
University (United States).
Said Nichols: “Although all work for social change takes years to
see results, and often runs into serious hurdles that prohibit
measurable success, I appreciate the opportunity that this award
offers to recognize efforts to create a more compassionate and
just society.”
Salpy Eskidjian, who was the EAPPI’s International Programme
Coordinator during Nichols’ time with the programme, praised her
efforts: “Catherine served the programme tirelessly…and was
appreciated by the WCC, the EAPPI members, Church leaders in
Jerusalem, as well as volunteers who joined the programme, and
all local partners, both Palestinian and Israeli, for her staunch
commitment to the programme and what it stands for, as well as
for her efforts to ensure the programme was on track.”
Nichols is continuing her work in the area of social justice,
having returned full-time to the Sabeel Ecumenical Center for
Liberation Theology in Jerusalem, a local partner organization of
the EAPPI.
The Susan and Lawrence Bailis Family Social Justice Award was
instituted in 2003 at the Heller School of Brandeis University in
honor of the commitment of the Bailis family to social justice
issues. The late Susan Bailis chaired the Heller School Board of
Overseers until her death in 2000. Lawrence Bailis, a faculty
member at the Heller School, is a researcher whose work in
community-building sensitized him to the importance of
highlighting this issue at his school, whose mission is to use
knowledge in order to advance social justice.
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