About the Westbrook Education Fund
The Westbrook Education Fund supports a variety of activities that help people grow in their personal, professional, and spiritual lives. These include monthly evenings of recollection and weekend retreats led by priests of Opus Dei, a personal prelature of the Catholic Church.
Westbrook also organizes professional development seminars and philosophy courses. These programs are designed for working professionals as well as university and college students.
Looking ahead, the Fund aims to provide student residences at universities in British Columbia and to establish cultural and conference centres in the Lower Mainland.
In addition, Westbrook serves as a channel for donors in British Columbia and beyond to support other worthwhile initiatives.
Supported Initiatives
The Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
The Pontifical University of the Holy Cross is a pontifical college in Rome at which is taught philosophy, theology and canon law at the licentiate and doctorate levels to priests, seminarians, religious and lay people from around the world. Many of the students attending the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross are from developing countries and require scholarship assistance.
LINCCO
LINCCO is a Canadian non-governmental organization (NGO) whose aim is "The Relief of Poverty through Education". It works with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and other partners in providing developmental funding and expertise for projects in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Under the auspices of LINCCO a number of young men from British Columbia have spent time in Peru and Paraguay gaining much valuable life and spiritual experience by helping with initiatives in those countries.
"When you have finished your work, do your brother's, helping him, for Christ's sake, so tactfully and so naturally that no one — not even he — will realise that you are doing more than what in justice you ought. This, indeed, is virtue befitting a son of God."
