Award ceremony recognizes efforts in midwest
The event at the Westin hotel in Detroit kicked off with the reading of letter from the Niagara Foundation's honorary chair Fethullah Gülen.
The Detroit Institute of Arts or D-I-A received the Niagara Community Service Award for "being a beacon of culture in the Detroit area for well over a century."
President and CEO of D-I-A, Graham Beal thanked the foundation and called visual arts a “multicultural language."
Graham W. J. Beal said: “I think it is truly moving, I think you might have seen some of that on Iznik where we have them on view, work quite like made by Christians in Turkey going all the way across to Endulus, where you see Christian plates made by Muslims - a proof of truly multicultural tolerant societies”.
Dr. Janice Brown, Executive Director of Kalamazoo Promise received the Niagara Education Award. Brown said the foundation understood the important role young people play in creating the future.
Dr. Janice M. Brown also said; "Each and everyone in kalamazoo help those youth be good on the promise..become highly skilled worker and become a good citizen of the creat US. That my friends is what the Kalmazoo promise is all about. It is not Janice Brown, it is making peace and dialogue in one little section of the world”.
Steve Schram, Director of Broadcasting in Michigan Radio received the Niagara Media Award and Victor Ghalib Begg, a Muslim community activist received the Niagara Peace Award.
Begg asked the audience to observe a moment of silence and pray for victims of the earthquake in eastern Turkiye.
He also highlighted the Niagara Foundation’s effort to promote commonalities among people and spoke about Turkiye as perfect example of religious pluralism.
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