Lecturer wins 2014 Coady Family Award

A Development Consultant with Pro-Link Organisation, Mr Thomas Aduah Quarcoo, has won this year’s Coady Family Global Award for outstanding Community Leadership.

He received the award at Margaree Homestead, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada at a ceremony which was attended by participants in the Coady programme and dignitaries from around the world. 

The award was established by the families of grand-nephews and grand-nieces of the late Rev. Dr Moses Coady, a Canadian Minister, educationist, publisher and astute community organiser and development strategist, in honour of Rev. Dr Coady’s sister, the late Mary Jesse Coady and her husband, Leo. 

The late Rev Dr Coady convened the inaugural United Maritime Fishermen’s Convention of Canada on June 25, 1930, and also spearheaded the formation of the Provincial Education Association and as well started the formation of the Provincial Education Association and the publication of the teachers’ bulletin that lobbied for higher teacher’s salaries and other benefits.

Deserving community leader

The annual bursary is granted to a deserving community leader to attend the Coady International Institute Diploma Programme. This support represents the family’s commitment to the vision of Dr Coady —- a vision that continues through the work of thousands of Coady institute graduates around the world.

Receiving the award, Mr Quarcoo, a gender activists and lecturer of the Anglican University College of Technology, Nkoranza Campus, who is also pursuing a Master of Education (Mentorship) programme at the University of Education, Winneba, expressed his gratitude to the Coady Family for the honour done him. He assured them that the award would inspire him to do more to help improve the lot of the vulnerable and disadvantaged in the local communities.

Quoting one of Dr Coady’s inspirational speeches, “they will use what they have to secure what they have not”, he pledged his continued support to the local communities to use their assets to alleviate their poverty in a citizen-led community development.