Salina Dharamsi
An advocate for equity, justice and global acceptance, Salina displays a social conscience that marks her as a true leader. Salina has served as a World Vision Youth Ambassador in Rwanda, a United Nations Panelist on Disaster Risk Reduction in New York and a Global Platform Youth Facilitator in Geneva. Locally, she is a tireless volunteer who has taught nutrition classes in the Downtown Eastside, tutored children with learning disabilities and served as a volunteer for Canuck Place Children’s Hospice. In recognition of her extraordinary contributions, Salina is an Order of Canada Youth Mentee, as well as a recipient of the BC Community Achievement Medallion. Salina is completing her UBC accounting and e-business degree, and has excelled as a co-op student at KPMG.
Connecting the Community Quote:
“My passion for advocating for mothers in difficult circumstances was sparked while representing World Vision at a widows’ cooperative in Rwanda; working to achieve self-reliance and independence those mothers, and the at-risk teens I work with locally, are my inspiration for supporting YWCA’s early learning and child care program which provides affordable childcare to teen moms enrolled at Tupper Secondary School.”
Article: http://www.ywcavan.org/content/2012_Nominees___Young_Women_of_Distinction/
Dear Salina,
Our school every year has a day called “Take Action Day”, where the students choose a place to help out in the community and voulenteer for the day. Every year, along with this event we have an assembly where the students have a slide show and are given choices where we feel we can help the community based on our strengths (for example students who enjoy cooking, can bake for elderly and others who enjoy physical activity can help the elementry kids with a fun day). Also at this Assembly we try to have a source of enpowerment, as to help encourage the students to participate. This year a few of my friends and myself were given the task of finding a speaker to help inspire the student population, and as we were searching for speakers we came across your name and we instantly found what you have done both for global and local community simply amazing achievement after amazing achievment. We were wondering if you would be willing to come and speak at our school? We would have contacted you privately but we could not find any contact information on your blog. If you would be interested in being our speaker please contact us ASAP at
contactGWGtakeaction@gmail.com