Helen Mack honored with international award
Translated from La Hora (Guatemala)
September 7, 2005
By Edgar Aragon
Helen Mack, president of the Myrna Mack Foundation was awarded with the 2005 Notre Dame Prize for Distinguished Public Service in Latin America mainly for her work to promote democracy in the country.
The University of Notre Dame, the Kellogg Institute and the Coca Cola Foundation granted her this prize in recognition of Mack’s effort as a human rights advocate in Guatemala.
For fifteen years and as a result of the murder of her sister, the anthropologist Myrna Mack, Helen Mack devoted her life to combat injustice and impunity.
The sponsored institutions stressed that this recognition is given to prominent personalities for their hard work in the public service in Latin American.
The award was established in 1999 to recognize the work of individuals which foster public welfare and it is conferred to leaders from different fields such as human rights, education, philanthropy, religion and social communication.
Among those who participated in the ceremony were Sharon Schierling, associate director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Rev. James McDonald, general secretary and adviser of the president, both from the University of Notre Dame.
Both, the president of Brazil, Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva and the president of the Inter-American Development Bank, Enrique Iglesias, had been recipients of this award.
