We are pleased to announce that Alex Lukac, our Passion Leader extraordinaire, has won the My Hero Contest…
Alex has been a participant and volunteer for the Passion Foundation for over two years. She has demonstrated her ability to be true to herself, her community, and her family.
Here is Alex’s entry:
My Hero
Submitted to: Passion Foundation
Submitted by: Alexandra Lukac
My mother, Beatrice Lukac, is my hero. My mother is an immigrant single mother of three children and has been my family’s primary care giver for the last thirteen years. Living through the family’s breakup and the financial challenges that followed for many years has been a constant stress and emotionally challenging. I feel very fortunate to have a mother who always stayed positive and looked for opportunities to better our family situation.
Due to her hard work, persistence, and determination, she moved our family from Toronto to Vancouver and successfully completed a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology. Now working as a mental health therapist at Vancouver Coastal Health, she now helps others. In September 2008, she overcame medical difficulties. Her dream of buying a place for us became true in September 2009 when she bought an apartment downtown. She has put so much time into helping me through my pain, my family, and her clients and now she has put the time into enhancing her life. Just a couple months ago she started taking singing lessons, which she has been dreaming about since childhood.
She has proved to everyone that it is never too late to pursue your dreams and overcome challenges. She is accepting of herself and her accomplishments and accepting of other people. With my mother as my role model, I learned to become independent, strong, and involved with helping others as well. As my inspiration and hero, my mother has revealed to me the power of giving, love, positive attitude, and belief in oneself. My mother is a phenomenal woman, a phenomenal mother, and my phenomenal hero.
Thanks to Blo Hair Bar and Peggy from Lumeo Photography Alex and her mom Beatrice will be getting their hair did for a professional photoshoot on July 17, 2010.
Stay tuned for photos!
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