(Clearwisdom.net, April 30, 2004) Cindy Chen, member of the Canadian Falun Dafa Association, recently received an Ottawa Community Award for her outstanding contributions in the area of promoting health, safeguarding human rights and building a peaceful community. On the evening of April 21, 2004, Canadian MP Marlene Catterall attended the award ceremony of the celebration activity for the 3^rd anniversary of "National Volunteers Week," held in the Nepean West Community Center.

Falun Gong practitioner Cindy Chen (middle) receives a community award

The award highly commended Ms. Cindy Chen's hard work in using various measures, including writing articles, translating and holding photo exhibitions to benefit many people by introducing the principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" and the beauty of Falun Dafa to community residents. The award also recognized her continuous effort in calling on Canadian society to help end the Jiang regime's persecution of Falun Gong.

Ms. Cheng told a reporter: "I hope that people can gain an overall picture of the human rights abuses of Falun Gong practitioners in China and provide help to end this persecution."