2011 Heroes Award Winner Announced: Click here to learn more about Miss Laura Manni & our other finalists

Pictured: BoPH Heroes Award Winner Miss Laura Mani with students from Mukwashi Trust School

Bridges of Peace and Hope is pleased to announce that Miss Laura Manni has been selected as our recipient of the 2011 BoPH Heroes Award. Laura is a decicated and inspirational educator who has significantly improved the opportunities and quality of education for all the students and teachers at the Mukwashi Trust School in Lusaka, Zambia. Laura transformed personal tragedy and grief into a commitment to help others. In 2006, not long after her 29 year old fiance died suddenly of cardiac arrest, Laura came to Lusaka. Orginally from Canada, she moved to Zambia to try to find reasons to go on living in a world that didn't make sense anymore. She found it in the Mukwashi School project. In Laura's own words she said, "It helped me to heal and to find a way forward in a world I didn't want to be in anymore." To learn more about Laura's tireless work to develop and improve Mukwashi Trust School please watch the video below.

Please learn about our other three heroes finalists by watching and reading the entries below. Laura Manni is our BoPH 2011 Heroes Award winner but the other finalists are winners and heroes too so congratulations to each of them; Mrs. Millman, Mountain Way School Hero from Morris Plains, NJ; Mr. Brad Philen, International School of Dakar Hero, Senegal, West Africa and Delinka Fabiny, American International School of Budapest Hero, Budapest, Hungary.

Thanks to all the teachers and students who submitted entries for this years Heroes Award Project. And thanks for your kind words of appreciation and support for Bridges of Peace and Hope.

Miss Laura Manni
Bridges of Peace and Hope 2011 Heroes Award Winner
American International School of Lusaka, Zambia
Director of Early Learning Center
Humanitarian and Volunteer Director of Mukwashi Trust Foundation School

Finalists

Mrs. Arlene Millman

BoPH Heroes Award Finalist

Mountain Way School Hero

Morris Plains, NJ USA

Brad Philen

BoPH Heroes Award Finalist
International School of Dakar Hero
Dakar, Senegal, West Africa

Delinka Fabiny

BoPH Heroes Award Finalist
World Language Teacher

Humanitarian / Volunteer Coordinator

Coordinator for Salonta Children’s Home Project in Romania

American International School of Budapest

Budapest, Hungary

We nominate Delinka to receive the Bridges of Peace and Hope Heroes Award. Delinka is a high school world language teacher. We would like to share with you some of the reasons why she would be a very deserving recipient of this honor. She has been the impetus and driving force of the Salonta Children's Home experiences for the past 4 years. She has unselfishly given her time, energy, and weekends away from her family to help the American International School of Budapest (AISB) make deeper connections with the children and helpers, caregivers and workers at Salonta Children’s Home in Romania.

Delinka wears many hats, from trip organizer at AISB, coordinating the National Honour Students, parent visits, clothes drives, 3rd grade pen pals, and Flea Market donations. She is in constant contact with Marika, the head of the households at Salonta Children’s Home. Before we arrive, she guides our high school students in what to buy in terms of food, value for money, non-perishable foods. While she is there, she never stops working. She is councilor, teacher, friend, confidant, to, not only the younger children and teenagers, but the workers and helpers, who are ethnically Hungarian. Delinka speaks fluent Hungarian.

Delinka leads by example. One minute she is leading the planting of the garden with our kids and theirs, the next she is helping get the story telling session going with another 15 kids. She gets the boys from AISB playing soccer with the boys from Salonta Children’s Home, then she will get our students to help with arranging lunch and dinner, and sorting out all the logistics. She takes a group of about 15 students in September for the Fall Trips for 4 days and then we go with another group in October, then we go again with another group of kids in the spring. This has become one of the most sought after service trips at our school, and word has spread that this is one of the most worthwhile experiences we participate in, and we have many!

Delinka Fabiny is a hero to the children and workers at Salonta Children’s Home and also to the students and staff at the American International School in Budapest. We salute her and thank her for her leadership and her inspirational commitment to helping others.

Kevin Fayarchuk

Nominated by Kevin Fayarchuk

Grade 3 Teacher

On behalf of students and teachers

American International School of Budapest, Hungary

2011 Heroes Award Winner Announced: Click here to learn more about Miss Laura Manni & our other finalists

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