Senator and former Majority Leader, Robert J. Dole, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Caring Institute, announced the winners of the 2009 Most Caring People in America Awards on September 24th.
Paula Lucas, Founder & Executive Director of American Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center, was one of the five adults honored during the Caring Awards ceremony on the evening of October 13 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, California. There were also five winners in the young adult category, an international winner and a Mother Teresa Lifetime Achievement Award given to the Dalai Lama.Other adult winners included General Colin Powell, former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Former U.S. Secretary of State and genocide survivor John Dau, the leader of the Lost Boys of Sudan.
In cooperation with FAWCO, AODVC is currently running a series of Ambassador training programs in Europe. For more info, go to www.866uswomen.org. She is also scheduled to speak at our Boston Conference in March 2010.
The Caring Institute's mission is to promote the values of caring, integrity and public service. It was founded in 1985 by Val J. Halamandaris after a meeting with Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Mother Teresa said that there was a poverty of the spirit in the developed world which was much worse than the poverty of the body seen in the third world and directed Halamandaris to do something about it. Halamandaris put in place an awards program and a system for identifying people who give back to society in extraordinary ways and holding them up as role models to. be identified by others. The Caring Institute is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) charitable organization.
The Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center can be reached internationally toll-free from 175 countries. To contact the toll-free crisis line from overseas, first dial your AT&T USADirect access number and at the prompt, enter our phone number: 866-USWOMEN (879-6636). The center serves abused Americans, mostly women and children, in both civilian and military populations overseas. For more information, go to http://www.866uswomen.org/
