Josephine Tsui

To Whom It May Concern,

I am pleased to provide support to Josephine’s application for the Sauve Scholarship.

Firstly, let me say how pleased I am to know about the Sauve Scholarship. I am of an age to remember when Jeanne Sauve was in politics and I especially remember when she was the Governor General. She was such an elegant, gracious, fluently-bilingual woman. I was a university student studying to become bilingual and she was such a wonderful role model.

So it is a real pleasure to be able to support the application for the Sauve Scholarship for Josephine Tsui, a young woman I have had the pleasure to mentor a little bit. In my first career, I was a teacher and then a high school administrator, Principal in three large high schools here in Calgary. Josephine was a student at Sir Winston Churchill High School, my last school.

I have now been CEO of the YWCA of Calgary for the past seven years. Josephine contacted me to do an interview when she was still in university here in Calgary. Subsequently, we have stayed in touch. Because of her interest in international development-which the World YWCA is very involved in- and because she was living in Zambia at the time, I suggested she should attend the World Council of the World YWCA-a meeting that happens once every four years and was held in Nairobi in 2007.Josephine expressed a keen interest and I was able to arrange for her to be considered part of the YWCA Canada’s official delegation. Josephine was a community volunteer representing the YWCA of Calgary. My Board, a former Board member and I all contributed funds to support her participation. Reports from my Canadian colleagues were all very favorable, and I know that Josephine made a lot of lifetime friends from this experience.My colleagues tell me she made an outstanding impression and contribution.

I am so pleased that she has carried on to further education. Josephine is smart, passionate,caring, humble and motivated:she wants to change the world for the better. She is the kind of young person that the YWCA -in the World and in Canada- is trying to mentor and engage. The future for womens’ issues and for agencies that advocate for women is intrusted to the Josephine’s of our world. I would be thrilled to see her advance in her studies and be supported by the Sauve Scholarship. Josephine is just the kind of young woman who would have so impressed Jeanne Sauve.

Please give her the closest consideration and please choose her for the scholarship.

Jill Wyatt,
CEO,
YWCA of Calgary

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