Ruth Abdi Awarded PCK’s 2023 Diversity Scholarship

Ruth Abdi Awarded PCK’s 2023 Diversity Scholarship

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PCK is pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the Diversity Scholarship is Ruth Abdi, a second-year student at the University of Toronto majoring in Immunology,

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Ruth Abdi (left) is the winner of the 2022 PCK Diversity Scholarship.

“I’m deeply thankful for being selected as the recipient of the 2023 diversity scholarship by PCKIP. Thank you for believing in my potential, acknowledging my hard work and supporting my educational journey. The financial support you provided me will greatly alleviate constraints, allowing me to focus on my studies. I’m also grateful to witness your commitment to diverse communities and hope you continue to provide this support for others!”

PCK recognizes and embraces the diverse nature of our clients, colleagues and vendors.

PCK created three Ontario diversity initiatives that have been developed in collaboration with Roots Community Services. They all share the goals of relieving hardship or economic disadvantage and assisting disadvantaged persons or groups to achieve or attempt to achieve equal opportunity. One of the initiatives is an annual scholarship for disadvantaged University students.

We continuously look for ways to strengthen our firm’s values of trust, security, innovation and creativity to better serve our market of varied international clients and vendors.  We actively seek opportunities to engage across humanity’s spectrum of color, race, age, ability, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexual identity.  We are also committed to providing quality service by maintaining a work environment that supports and respects individuality and which reflects the distinctiveness of our clients and vendors.


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