Our Community is full of ordinary people doing extraordinary
things. Occasionally, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. The dedicated
work of the esteemed recipient of this award has become noticed by PEPP
and has been selected by the PEPP leaders to receive the 2003 Caryl
Penner Social Justice Award.
At the November 16th, 2003 Annual Meeting, People Escaping Poverty
Project awarded the Caryl Penner Social Justice Award to Hatidza Asovic.
Ms. Asovic has earned this award for her work assisting the Bosnian and
Roma Communities in Fargo-Moorhead. Hatidza Asovic currently works as a
Vista at the Cultural Diversity Resources.
PEPP is a local non-profit organization that has been doing Community
Organizing in the Fargo-Moorhead area since 1986. Caryl Penner was a
co-founder of PEPP and passes away from cancer in 2001.
This award honors Caryl Penner’s commitment and contribution to Social
Justice in this community.
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Posted 11-18-2002