Father Joe Will be Recipient of Gandhi Faith Award
Honor Named After Late Spiritual Leader of India

   SAN DIEGO — Father Joe Carroll, president of St. Vincent de Paul Village, will accept the Gandhi Nonviolence Award for Faith, presented by the Tariq Khamisa Foundation, on Saturday, September 27, at 5:30 p.m., at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, located at 5998 Alcalá Park on the University of San Diego campus.

   The Gandhi Nonviolence Awards are designed to honor San Diego individuals and organizations who promote, inspire or help build a culture of peacemakers and make the city a more peaceful and harmonious community.

   Awards are given in each of the following categories: Community Leadership, Education, Business, Media, Faith Community, and Youth (a male and a female winner).

   The award winners are honored on stage and receive a special plaque. The two youth winners each receive a $500 scholarship.

   Father Joe will be recognized for his 21-year commitment to San Diego’s homeless children, families and single adults through his work at St. Vincent’s.
Under Father Joe’s guidance, the Village has grown from a simple soup kitchen and thrift store to an internationally recognized human-services provider whose program for combating and solving homelessness is among the most successful worldwide.

   The award is named in honor India’s great spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi who died in 1948.

   For more information (media only) on Father Joe’s acceptance of the Gandhi Nonviolence Award for Faith, call (619) 525-1608.

For more information on the Tariq Khamisa Foundation, call (619) 525-0062.

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