In Fawzia's memory

 1. Since 2012,  a monthly donation of Rs. 30,000/ to St. Joseph's Home for Elders at Marawila. This feeds 150 destitute elders breakfast, lunch, and dinner for one day each month. The amount was increased to Rs. 60,000/ in 2022.

Fawzia with two nuns from St. Joseph's Home

2. "Fawzia Braine Memorial Award" (worth HK$2500) given every year to a novice scholar for the best journal article. Managed by the Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics. Shue Yan University, where Fawzia taught, and Mark and Isabella Taylor, our neighbors and friends in HK, also contributed to setting-up the award. Nine annual awards have been made so far.

3. To the Rupee Fund, run by the Sri Lanka Malay Association, a donation of Rs. 800,000/ to help with their charity work.

4. To the Women's Association of Sri Lanka Malays (WASLAM), a donation of Rs. 500,000/ to set up the "Nghei Fawzia Braine Fund". The bank interest generated helps a Malay university student every year.

5. Rs. 600,000/ to purchase additional land for a home for mentally disabled children at Bolawatte.

6. A paver stone at the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in Maryland, USA. 

7. Rs. 300,000/ for corrective surgery for a child with cleft lip and palate. Some contributions came from the USA.  

8. Rs. 300,000/ to replace the roof of the community hall at St. Joseph's Home for Elders at Marawila. 

Fawzia Braine Memorial Award - 8th Year

The Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics (HAAL) is pleased to announce that this year, Mr Greg Chung-Hsien Wu, a PhD candidate in the Centre for Applied English Studies at the University of Hong Kong, will receive the Fawzia Braine Memorial Award for his paper "Engaging senior-year admitted students' academic literacies across the discipline: A language practitioner's perspectives" (published in Innovations in Education and Teaching International, in press). 

A paver (paving stone) in Fawzia's memory

 

A paver was installed at the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes on the campus of Mount St. Mary’s University, Maryland, in Fawzia's memory.