Each year International House offers a special award to residents who have shown dedication, talent or skill, for community services outside of I-House. The Kalpakam-Loraine Award honors an I-House resident who has made sustained, exceptional contributions to the community, whether by tutoring, working with the homeless or physically challenged, fundraising, or other types of volunteer service. The awards were announced at Spring Farewell Dinner on April 28, 2007. View slideshow.
Pedro Miguel Gardete has been nominated by I-House resident visiting scholar, Bianca Cerchiai. Pedro Gardete is in the marketing Ph.D. program at the Haas School of Business. He has been volunteering at the Sutter Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice, which makes it possible for patients to receive quality health care at home. The "VNA" has have been providing home care for nearly a century. Pedro is a hospice volunteer visiting people who are terminally ill diagnosed with 6 months of life and who live with some members of their family at home. As a volunteer, he visits the patients once a week to give the caregiver some time of rest and also to provide compassionate companionship and comfort to the patients and their families coping the terminal illness. Currently he is helping taking care of a 90 year- old woman.
Kim Nguyen is nominated by Liliane Koziol, Director of Programs. Kim Nguyen has been volunteering and fundraising for many worthy causes including working with the UN-based Nothingbutnet project in an effort to eradicate malaria in Vietnam. For this purpose, she appealed to the women staff workers at I-House to alert them to the cause who all joined to gather some funds for the occasion. She is also raising money for an orphanage in Darfur.
Robert Sepeda: is nominated by Laura Lee I-House resident for his community service tutoring counseling and teaching underprivileged individuals. He worked with high school students in Richmond and on Fridays at a continuation school in Albany where he would mentor high school students as well as teach and tutor adults.
Gideon Sofer is nominated by Oren Kroll-Zeldin, Senior JCSC Fellow at the Berkeley Hillel. Gideon Sofer raised awareness and funds nation-wide about the Crohn Disease through the Crohn Disease Stamp Project, a grassroots campaign to have he U.S, Stamp Advisory Committee approve a stamp about a disease, which has no cure. Gideon also organized a benefit concert at UC Berkeley for this worthy volunteer project.
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