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<H1><FONT size=2><FONT color=#c00000>Please share with your contacts:</FONT>
Congratulations to Sayuri Gutierrez, the Brock University community and Dignidad
Obrera Agricola Migrante (a collective of migrant workers in the Niagara region)
for starting this important scholarship initiative. See the scholarship fund
page for more information on how you can support the children of migrant workers
attain post-secondary education in Canada. <A
href="http://studyinniagara.ca/migrantaward/"><BR>http://studyinniagara.ca/migrantaward/</A></FONT> <BR></H1>
<H1><FONT size=2></FONT><A href="http://www.brocku.ca/brock-news/?p=17956"><FONT
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<H1>Daughter of migrant farm worker wins scholarship to Brock</H1>
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<P class=wp-caption-text>Sayuri Gutierrez, whose father is a Mexican seasonal
agricultural worker, has received a scholarship for children of Niagara's
migrant workers to attend Brock. </P></DIV>
<P>A promise to a dying grandmother but no way to fulfill that vow — Sayuri
Gutierrez, whose father is a Mexican migrant worker employed in the region, was
hard-pressed to figure out how she and her family could ever afford a university
education.</P>
<P>Enter the migrant advocacy group <A
title="Dignity for Agricultural Migrant Workers"
href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/164828580202908/">Dignidad Obrera Agricola
Migrante (Dignity for Agricultural Migrant Workers)</A> and Richard Mitchell,
associate professor of child and youth studies at Brock. They, along with
associate theatre professor David Fancy, Vice-Provost Kim Meade, Director of
Student Awards Rico Natale, and various Brock University Students' Union
representatives decided to support the educational dreams of Niagara's migrant
workers and their children.</P>
<P>The result was the <A title="Migrant Children's Education Award"
href="http://studyinniagara.ca/migrantaward/" target=_blank>Migrant Children's
Education Award,</A> the only university-based award of its kind in Canada, with
18-year-old Sayuri Gutierrez as its first-ever recipient. Gutierrez is also the
first one in her family to go to university.</P>
<P>"I feel proud because I'm the daughter of a migrant worker," Gutierrez says.
"The son or daughter of a migrant worker studying in Canada, it sounds
impossible when you're in your home country."</P>
<P>Mitchell explains that the educational award is one way Brock puts into
practice the principles of sustainability. He says the widely referenced United
Nations' definition is simply present generations leaving enough of the earth's
resources for future generations.</P>
<P>"Since Brock is one of a handful of universities in Canada to be located in a
<A title=UNESCO href="http://www.unesco.org/new/en/" target=_blank>UNESCO
(United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)</A> World
Biosphere Reserve, this gives the university the opportunity to practise
sustainability through these international lenses," Mitchell says.</P>
<P>Such innovative approaches are also in line with <A title="Strategic Plan"
href="http://www.brocku.ca/brock-news/www.brocku.ca/webfm_send/425"
target=_blank>Brock's 2014 Integrated Strategic Plan,</A> he says, and are
typical of the transdisciplinary initiatives being investigated by the <A
title="Environmental Sustainability Research Centre"
href="http://www.brocku.ca/environmental-sustainability-research-centre"
target=_blank>Environmental Sustainability Research Centre (ESRC)</A> where he
and Fancy are associate faculty members.</P>
<P>But it's not just the physical environment that needs to be protected and
cared for, Mitchell notes.</P>
<P>"To try and understand sustainability without looking at the people who are
working on the land doesn't work," he says when explaining the award's
creation.</P>
<P>"It's these kinds of intersections between and amongst education, science,
and culture that brought me to notice the migrant agricultural workers in the
Niagara Region. They bring so much prosperity for all of us and yet their
experiences are often that of social exclusion, marginalization and even
discrimination."</P>
<P>Sayuri Gutierrez can attest to that. She and her family were on the verge of
being deported in June but were granted residency on compassionate grounds. Her
father suffers from kidney disease and would be unable to afford life-saving
treatment in Mexico.</P>
<P>Gutierrez will study psychology.</P>
<P>"My family had gone through so many things," she says. "I saw how a
psychologist was working with my brother when he had his traumas. My mother was
going into depression. One day, I thought being in psychology would be a good
idea to help people that have family issues or children who go through hard
times."</P>
<P>Gutierrez says receiving the scholarship was like "winning the lottery,"
ensuring her and her family's future.</P>
<P class=hilight>"I have to go to university and fulfill that promise I made to
my grandmother."</P></DIV></DIV>
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