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2006 Chancellor Dunning Trust Lecture

EVENT COMPLETED - WELL ATTENDED!

Took place on Wednesday, October 25 at noon

Education and Calcutta Rescue
 Dr. Jack Preger

”One of the as sumptions underpinning the work of Calcutta Rescue is that if you educate a woman, she will pass on that education to her family, and with luck, even to her husband!” Dr. Preger will talk about the efforts made by Calcutta Rescue in women's education through health education in the clinic; through the slum, street medicine and village projects; through the education of clinic staff using workshops; and through their two schools and describe Calcutta Rescue’s attempts to educate the escorts of illiterate and difficult to motivate slum children attending their schools.

Ban Righ Centre

Queen's University
32 Bader Lane
Kingston, Ontario
K7L 3N8
Phone: 533-2976
 
 

FALL NOON HOUR PROGRAMS

The Ban Righ Centre runs a Speakers Program from 12:00pm to 1:00pm. 

  This is a continuing education program and we welcome anyone to attend.  We offe r an eclectic line up of speakers who give a talk, reading, or presentation in their area of expertise over the noon hour.  If you are interested in coming to see a Speaker, please drop by the Ban Righ Centre at 32 Bader Lane (formerly Queen's Crescent) a few minutes before noon on the day of the Program. Enjoy meeting new people and have a free bowl of soup (small donation if you are a non-student).

To learn more about our upcoming summer speakers, contact Lisa Webb at 613-533-2976
Took place on Tuesday 24 October 2006

The Rotary Club of Cataraqui-Kingston - Breakfast Meeting 07:00 at the Cataraqui Golf and Country Club. Dr. Jack spoke to about fifty Rotarians who attended this event. He was aided by Danielle and Tim.

Special Event: Took Place at 7:30 p.m. - MacDonald Hall, Room #001

2006 Chancellor Dunning Trust Lecture

Jack Preger, Street Doctor, Founder and Honorary Chairman of Calcutta Rescue,

delivered the Chancellor Dunning Trust Lecture on

October 19, at 7:30 p.m.

Queen's University MacDonald Hall, Room 001

128 Union Street, Kingston.

located between Dunning Hall and Policy Studies

note new venue - we apologize for the inconvenience

Dr. Preger was born in 1930, in Manchester, England. Several of his close relatives in Germany perished under Hitler. The effects on the survivors which he witnessed led him later to identify with war refugees and other persecuted groups in Bangladesh and West Bengal. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, farmed in England and Wales for 10 years, and later studied Medicine at The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. In 1972, after his internship in Dublin, Dr. Preger answered a call for medical doctors to go to Bangladesh, working with refugees, slum-dwellers and vagrants. In Dhaka he set up a 90 bed clinic and ran two farms in Dhaka District for former pavement-dwellers and abandoned children. Seven years later, he was expelled after exposing a government-masterminded racket involving the illegal export of babies by a Dutch NGO, ostensibly for adoption.

In 1979 he set up an illegal clinic on the pavement in Kolkata, and founded Calcutta Rescue. There, Dr. Jack, (as he had become known to his patients, the people who live and die around Howrah Bridge and in the slums and streets of Kolkata), was soon jailed as an alleged missionary who had entered India without a missionary visa. But nothing has succeeded in stopping this extraordinary man. Through his selflessness, dogged determination, and creative solutions to complex problems, and with the help of his team of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, paramedics, teachers and volunteers, the lives of over a hundred thousand destitute and dispossessed have had some of their dignity restored. Through its manifold program, Calcutta Rescue cares for the sick as well as educates and trains people for work. Funding comes from British, European and Australian support groups. The newly formed Canadian group based in Kingston hopes to become a steady supporter of the work of this inspiring man.

Photo: above and on poster below (c) Terence Tay

The lecture was attended by about 140 people and Dr. Preger was well received. A small reception followed. Thanks to our roster of volunteers. Quite a few of the audience offered to help the local group in the future. A selection of photographs of the event will follow.
This event was well attended (80), our thanks to the Canadian Club of Kingston and their sponsor for hosting Dr. Preger. Thanks also for their kind donation to Calcutta Rescue Canada.
EXCITING NEWS:
16/10/2006

Calcutta Rescue Canada has been granted Registered Charity Status with Revenue Canada. Congratulations to Danielle for her hard work on our behalf.
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