September 29 – The Globe and Mail states that nearly four years ago, John Clarke was deeply shaken by a double tragedy. His wife, Shawna Christianson Clarke, died on Jan. 2, 2015, after a lengthy illness in Jerusalem, where Mr. Clarke and his family live. Ten days later, Mr. Clarke’s mother, Vilma Nathaniel Clarke, died in the same hospital. As the family struggled to cope with the losses, Mr. Clarke wanted to do something to honour both women who’d had a life-long passion for education. Shawna, who was from Manitoba, worked as a policy adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ottawa before joining the United Nations’ West Bank field office in Jerusalem. Vilma, who was from Pakistan, had been a professor of geography at the Kinnaird College for Women, in Lahore. Mr. Clarke decided to launch a pair of scholarship programs; one for Palestinian women in Shawna’s name and another for students at the Kinnaird College in Pakistan named after his mother.
The Globe: Funding scholarships for students in Pakistan and Palestine
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