Roots of Empathy Leonardo da Vinci Award
Hats off to Roots of Empathy (Suite 160), who received the Leonardo da Vinci Award for innovation in education on April 15. The award recognizes and celebrates those that have created new, useful, and positive inventions, developments, or improvements in arts, business, entrepreneurship, or education.
But Roots didn't stop there! They also received $500,000 in provincial funding in May to expand their international program, geared at teaching children compassion. This very program garnered a visit from Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, and His Excellency John Ralston Saul, to a classroom at Winchester Public School in Toronto on April 2.