{"id":3423,"date":"2023-10-25T14:14:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T18:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:58:08","slug":"mpnl-student-cindy-boustani-receives-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2023\/mpnl-student-cindy-boustani-receives-award\/","title":{"rendered":"MPNL Student Cindy Boustani Receives Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        MPNL Student Cindy Boustani Receives Award\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Cindy_Boustani400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Cindy_Boustani400.jpg\" alt=\"Cindy Boustani\" class=\"wp-image-3252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Cindy_Boustani400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Cindy_Boustani400-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Cindy_Boustani400-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cindy Boustani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2023\/cindy-boustani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cindy Boustani<\/a>, an MPNL student, is the inaugural recipient of the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/panl\/2022\/new-benevolence-award-for-mpnl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cBenevolence Award for MPNL.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was overwhelming to get the acceptance and to get the award, too,&#8221; Boustani says. &#8220;Even before I got accepted in the MPNL program, I worried about how I would finance the degree. I was financially unstable. I had moved from Lebanon to Montreal, and arrived here with nearly nothing. I feel like this program is my calling, and I&#8217;m grateful for being here, for being accepted, for receiving the award, for having this chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/panl\/2022\/new-benevolence-award-for-mpnl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cBenevolence Award for MPNL\u201d<\/a> was established by Alizeh Jaffrey Zaidi, a 2022 MPNL graduate, in honour of Hasan ibn Ali, a seventh-century philanthropist and spiritual leader known for his grantmaking and teachings about philanthropy. Today, Jaffrey\u2019s work in the philanthropic sector is inspired by his teachings and example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cindy Boustani, MPNL student, talks about receiving the 2023 &quot;Benevolence Award for MPNL&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jrox-fPo9rs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Boustani decided to work in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector, starting with the MPNL program, after working for the Lebanese Red Cross. She has a Master\u2019s degree in Architecture and worked as an Emergency Medical Technician and a trainer for the Lebanese Red Cross for more than seven years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In Lebanon, it&#8217;s very hard to build a career in the nonprofit sector, because it&#8217;s already a drained country, so the nonprofit sector is really suffering, so my work with the Lebanese Red Cross was always on the side,&#8221; Boustani says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/panl\/2022\/new-benevolence-award-for-mpnl\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/AlizehsDiploma700-400x222.jpeg\" alt=\"&quot;One tenet that I love is: \u201cA truly generous person gives before being asked for help.\u201d In other words, when seeing signs of need, you don\u2019t wait to reach the point where someone has to ask for help.&quot; --Alizeh Jaffrey, who established the \u201cBenevolence Award for MPNL&quot; in 2022\" class=\"wp-image-3427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/AlizehsDiploma700-400x222.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/AlizehsDiploma700-300x167.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/AlizehsDiploma700.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;One tenet that I love is: \u201cA truly generous person gives before being asked for help.\u201d In other words, when seeing signs of need, you don\u2019t wait to reach the point where someone has to ask for help.&#8221; &#8211;Alizeh Jaffrey Zaidi, who established the \u201cBenevolence Award for MPNL&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When I moved to Canada, I worked as an architect, and continued working in the nonprofit sector on the side, but it was difficult to do both,&#8221; she adds. &#8220;In 2022, I returned to Lebanon to visit my family for a wedding, and it was heartbreaking seeing the country. It was mentally and emotionally tormenting to see the state in which my people were living, in which my family were living &#8212; to see my parents living in such conditions. I decided that, as I live in Canada, I have the resources to study, and I have everything I need in Canada to make nonprofit work a full-time career.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Cindy-Boustani-Volunteered-to-Teach-in-a-Primary-School-in-Tanzania700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Cindy-Boustani-Volunteered-to-Teach-in-a-Primary-School-in-Tanzania700-400x357.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Cindy-Boustani-Volunteered-to-Teach-in-a-Primary-School-in-Tanzania700-400x357.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Cindy-Boustani-Volunteered-to-Teach-in-a-Primary-School-in-Tanzania700-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Cindy-Boustani-Volunteered-to-Teach-in-a-Primary-School-in-Tanzania700.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Boustani worked in a primary school in Tanzania.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She also volunteered in Tanzania, where she got the good news that the MPNL program had accepted her application and offered the Benevolence Award as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I eventually want to make a change in my own country,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I would love to have experience in Canada. I&#8217;m learning a lot from my peers and professors. I&#8217;m passionate about making changes in post-conflict regions, because these are the regions most affected, the regions that struggle the most in terms of intergenerational trauma.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Boustani, an MPNL student, is the inaugural recipient of the \u201cBenevolence Award for MPNL.\u201d &#8220;It was overwhelming to get the acceptance and to get the award, too,&#8221; Boustani says. &#8220;Even before I got accepted in the MPNL program, I worried about how I would finance the degree. I was financially unstable. 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