Altruistic effort receives international award
Translated from Prensa Libre (Guatemala)
August 31, 2005
Guatemala.- The Guatemalan activist, Helen Mack Chang, will be awarded with the 2005 Notre Dame Prize for Distinguished Public Service in Latin America for her work in the struggle for human rights in the country, announced an institution of the University of Notre Dame.
The Prize is awarded every year by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. The ceremony will take place on September 7th at the Musac, according to Associated Press.
Mack is the founder of Myrna Mack Foundation, an institution in memory of her murdered sister and thousands of victims who died at the hands of the army during an elongated civil war in Guatemala.
On September 1990, the anthropologist Myrna Mack was stabbed by members of a Guatemalan death squad.
Mack Chang will receive $10,000 and a matching amount donation for her foundation. The vice president of this institution, Jose Garcia Noval, will be the recipient of the award.
“I feel honored, despite the fact that this is circumstantial, because there are more people with a great history and which are not recognized for their work,” said Helen Mack Chang.
