Busy day at work with - among other activities - hosting the Senior Trade Commissioner from the Philippines of their Consulate in Toronto at Seneca. We are starting to do some interesting contract work in the Philippines. Late afternoon I made the hour and half trek downtown to be at the tail-end of a "house warming" of the new MSF Canada offices (Medecins sans Frontieres / Doctors without Borders). The photos below are hopeless quality because I was too excited to see the nice office space and what it has grown into from what we started here in 1990....
Jim Lane, one of the founders of MSF Canada and still a Board member. I slept many nights in the house of Jim & Georgina when we started MSF Canada in 1990 on a shoestring with a small budget from MSF Holland. Now both sons of Jim and Georgina study at Seneca College; small world....
James Orbinski, also one of the founders of MSF Canada, who later went on to become the MSF International President and who gave the organization's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in 1999. James now works at York University; we'll catch up in November sometime for lunch...
Richard Heinzl, the man who got the idea of MSF Canada rolling. He is catching up with some MSF staff in one of the meeting rooms of the new MSF offices.....
The organization grew to more than seventy staff. So nice to see. Wanted to apply for a job especially after seeing that they even have and R & R room.....
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