{"id":6818,"date":"2022-02-01T18:13:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T23:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/church-reaching-out-saint-leonard-development-and-peace-recognized-its\/"},"modified":"2022-02-01T18:13:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T23:13:09","slug":"church-reaching-out-saint-leonard-development-and-peace-recognized-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/church-reaching-out-saint-leonard-development-and-peace-recognized-its\/","title":{"rendered":"A Church reaching out: In Saint-L\u00e9onard, Development and Peace is recognized for its dedication over the past 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Louise Royer, Director of the Social Action Office<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\nYves Bourassa receives a plaque in recognition of 40 years of involvement on the part of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace in the Saint-L\u00e9onard community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Yves Bourassa shared with us that the local Development and Peace chapter was recognized from its outset by the community of Saint-L\u00e9onard (now the Borough of Saint- L\u00e9onard). The organization is indeed a founding member of the Saint-L\u00e9onard Table de concertation. During Development and Peace&#8217;s 50th anniversary in 2017, three members of the group received certificates recognizing for their contributions to Development and Peace and to international solidarity in that field: Yves Bourassa, Murielle Mondou and Pierre Tremblay. The Saint-L\u00e9onard local group is listed annually in the Borough&#8217;s Resources Directory.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe chapter first opened in 1980. Over the years, it has had three presidents:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>The late Fran\u00e7oise Perreault -Founder of the local chapter and member of the National Council for six years<\/li>\n\t<li>The late Mrs. Aline D&#8217;Amours &#8211; Member of the National Council for six years<\/li>\n\t<li>Mr. Yves Bourassa &#8211; Current President &#8211; Member of National Council for six years; Resource person for the Finance and Audit Committee of the National Council of Development and Peace for seven years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><br \/>\nThe local group has been and remains an active member of the Montreal Diocesan Council.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt is active in four parishes in Saint-L\u00e9onard: Saint-Gilbert, Sainte-Ang\u00e8le, Saint-L\u00e9onard and Saint-Ren\u00e9 Goupil: fall awareness campaign and the Lenten Partage fundraising campaign<br \/>\nIn addition to its activities at the parish level, the local Development and Peace chapter has organized and\/or contributed to other activities, including a mobile exhibit on solidarity displayed at the Saint-L\u00e9onard Library. The group hosts a booth at Citizen&#8217;s Day and participates in the volunteer recognition evening.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nEach year, the group hosts a booth and addresses the annual event organized by the Association Ha\u00eftiano-Canado-Qu\u00e9becoise d&#8217;Aide aux d\u00e9munis during the month dedicated to combating racial discrimination.&nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe recognition by the Borough is a great a source of pride for all past and present members of the Saint-L\u00e9onard local group in tribute to their many years of benevolent solidarity both here and internationally. During the ceremony, 20 other Saint-L\u00e9onard organizations also celebrated a landmark anniversary and were honoured. Great work!<br \/>\nCongratulations and many more productive years to the local group in Saint-L\u00e9onard!&nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIs one or more of your concerns represented by an organization at your local roundtable? To find out visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tablesdequartiermontreal.org\/\">http:\/\/www.tablesdequartiermontreal.org\/<\/a><br \/>\nFor more information, see: <a href=\"social@diocesemontreal.org\">social@diocesemontreal.org<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Louise Royer, Director of the Social Action Office Yves Bourassa receives a plaque in recognition of 40 years of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}