ASALUTETOKARLFLECKER

       [ As we compiled updates from our RP-CWY participants, we continue to discover the accomplishments of past participants
         who carried on the ideals of Canada World Youth, making a difference in the fields they have chosen, impacted the
         communities they lived in and those whose lives they have affected. Every month, we will honor these individuals. This month we salute: ]


     KARL FLECKER   (Global Activist)
   RP-CWY 1981-82

               Karl Flecker is considered one of the world's leading experts and advocates on the issue of
       water. He is currently a board member and director of the Water Program (volunteer) of the
       Canadian-based Polaris Institute, an organization that among other activist issues is challenging
       the growth of bottled water industry. The Polaris Institute is a research/ education and advocacy
       organization that is committed to assisting citizens' movements around the world fight for
       democratic social change in an age of corporate driven globalization.

                But his day job,---at least "until the kids get into post secondary and pay their own freight",
       he quips, is as National Director, Anti-Racism and Human Rights Department of the Canadian
       Labour Congress.

               Karl has a strong background in adult education and training, as well as considerable experience working with equity-seeking
        groups. Karl has written numerous articles on trade agreements, workers' rights and equity issues. He has worked with policy
        research and action organizations like the Polaris Institute and worked internationally with community, union and social justice
         groups in South Africa, India, Asia and the Americas who are creatively addressing the challenges that are impacting worker and
        community rights.

        Among his many roles:

        *Father of two Gen Y kids threatening to go to the most expensive post secondary schools they can find;

        *DIY home renovator with the longest running projects ever recorded

        *Writer, researcher and traveller who often is on the sideline cheering on his wife as she runs marathons. He is the one with the
         box of poutine. (French fries.)

        Karl's email address: kflecker@clc-ctc.ca
        He and his family live in Kingston, Ontario

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RP-Canada World Youth Alumni Foundation (Canada)
Headquarter: 33 Springbank Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M1N1G2 Canada
Mailing Address: P. O. Box 17017 Toronto, Ontario M5E 1Y2
Website: www.rpcwyalumni.org Email: admin@rpcwyalumni.org Phone: 416-265-9449

RP-Canada World Youth Alumni Association, Inc.(Philippines)
Head Office: 1229 Chino Roces Suite 412, MCS Tower Condominium, Barangay San Lorenzo Village, Makati City, Philippines
Email: admin@rpcwyalumni.org
Phone: 011-632-889-0929

Karl's RP-CWY youthful
days

Left, Karl bravely
performed the
"maglalatik" (the
coconut
folk dance)

RIght, Karl and Jacques
Hebert endured and
sampled the life of
sugarcane farmers
in Nasugbu, Batangas,
1981-82.

A SALUTE TO: RP-CWY OUTSTANDING ALUMNI

photos by Jacques Hebert- RP-CWY 1981