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Adele Boy is a retired secondary school teacher and curriculum leader from the
\nToronto District School Board where she taught English and Dramatic Arts for over
\n32 years. She and her late husband retired to the community of Sandford, Ontario
\nwhere she is active in her church Sandford\/Zephyr United church and community.
\nAdele has completed her Licensed Lay Worship Leader course and is currently
\ndoing pulpit supply for the local United Churches. Her other interests include being
\na wedding officiant, serving on the Uxbridge Library board, playing tennis, reading,
\nattending theatre and being with her friends and family. Adele has recently become
\na grandmother. Her strong faith has led her through the long journey to become a
\nmember of the team known as the Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine
\nand Israel. She feels it is a privilege to act out her faith in a practical manner as
\npeace and justice have been a concern of hers for many years. The call to become
\ninvolved became stronger over time and she felt it could no longer be ignored.
\nWorking towards peace and justice for all is the bottom line for Adele.
\nThe Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) is an
\ninternational ecumenical program that recruits and dispatches observers (known as
\nEcumenical Accompaniers \u2013 ES\u2019s) to several Palestinian towns and villages to
\nmonitor the interaction between the Palestinian inhabitants and the Israeli military.
\nThe presence of EA\u2019s is intended to offer protection and to moderate friction. Abuses
\nof authority are monitored and reported and EA\u2019s speak publicly of their
\nexperiences. The EAPPI was founded in 2002 under the auspices of the World
\nCouncil of Churches, in response to requests from Head of Churches in Jerusalem.
\nAccompaniers have four stated tasks: to offer protection through nonviolent
\npresence; to monitor and report violations of human rights and international
\nhumanitarian law; to support Israeli and Palestinian peace activists; and to
\nundertake advocacy work including public speaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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