Mr. Speaker, today Canadian Hadassah Wizo honoured women in public life. Hadassah Wizo is marking its 80th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the birth of the state of Israel by creating a fund to provide a scholarship in women's studies at the University of Ottawa.
For 80 years the incredibly talented women of Hadassah Wizo, a grassroots network, have represented the spirit of volunteering in this country with special emphasis on women and children and their health and education needs. Over the decades Hadassah Wizo has evolved from a project called Youth Aliyah during the second world war to remove Jewish children to safety in Israel. Today its project “Women to Women” is helping abused women.
I congratulate and thank Hadassah Wizo, Canada's largest Jewish women's organization, for its contribution.