Author: Vickram Bachan: 2025

Wednesday, 30 April 2025

Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers awards ceremony

On September 24, 2018, I was awarded the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers. After waiting 8 long years, today during national volunteers week, I was finally presented and invested with the honour at a very special ceremony in Ottawa at Rideau Hall, hosted by the honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada.

I want to thank her excellency, Mary Simon, as well as the former Governor General, Julie Payette. I also need to thank his majesty King Charles III as well as the late Queen Elizabeth II, for this incredible and most high honour for Canadian volunteers.🏅🎖️🇨🇦🍁❤️

I look forward to continuing volunteering and making a difference in Canada.

Friday, 14 March 2025

Canada’s Volunteer Award 2024 recipient!

I have some exciting news to share today. Yesterday I received some unexpected but exciting news. I am one of the 2024 Canada’s Volunteer Award recipients in the Emerging Leader category! I am honoured and humbled to be one of this year’s recipients of the CVA! I will be receiving the award later this spring at a special presentation ceremony in Ottawa. This award, which was formerly known as the Prime Minister’s Volunteer Award, is one of the highest honours presented to volunteers in Canada.

I will share more information and news about this as I get it. In the meantime, check out the news release from the CVA. You can read all about the award here: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/programs/volunteer-awards/2024-recipients.html

https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/news/2025/03/the-government-of-canada-announces-recipients-of-the-2024-canadas-volunteer-awards.html

Monday, 20 January 2025

New poem Video live now - Unity

This week as we celebrate Martin Luther King day and Lincoln Alexander day; and ahead of Black History Month which we are approaching next month in February, I wanted to share one of my more famous poems. I wrote this back in 2016. Now here it is for the first time ever in a video on YouTube!

Please enjoy Unity and don’t forget like and subscribe!