GALA FOR LIFE
It’s time to get “Back to Life” at The Wilberforce Project’s 10th Annual Alberta Benefit for Life gala event!
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Edmonton Inn & Conference Centre
11834 Kingsway Northwest Edmonton, AB T5G 3J5 CanadaAbout this event
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The Wilberforce Project was named after William Wilberforce (1759-1833), who was a Member of Parliament in England from 1780-1825. Not only was Wilberforce a politician and a philanthropist, supporting numerous causes, but he became a household name as one of the key abolitionists of the African Slave Trade. From the Winter of 1786 William Wilberforce fought to abolish the slave trade by leveraging his position as a Member of Parliament to influence public opinion, but most importantly public policy. After a grueling 21 years, Wilberforce saw the long-fought for Slave Trade Act receive royal assent in 1807.
William Wilberforce was known for his tenacity and commitment to human rights, and The Wilberforce Project saw it an honour to take upon his name and identify ourselves with the care and courage he put into his career and ministry. We hope to fill the large shoes he walked in, fighting tooth and nail as well, to one day see enshrined in Alberta’s public policy the value of pre-born children.
The second mandate of The Wilberforce Project is to educate the public of Alberta on the issue of abortion. We recognize that there are a number of pro-life groups throughout Alberta who have this task as their main mandate, and who fulfill it exceedingly well. In the spirit of not attempting to reinvent the wheel, we leave this task mostly in the hands of those organizations, and focus our pro-life education on two topics within the political field:
1) We educate and train individuals on the necessity of pro-lifers participation in politics. This training can include everything from the basics of how a democratic government is run and why party memberships must be held, all the way to the advanced strategy we have to build a pro-life province.
2) For individuals who are more keenly involved in politics, we run both nomination training as well as campaign training. This equips pro-lifers to walk through the nomination process and to run a campaign in their own ridings, or to be equipped to volunteer their time to other pro-lifers towards these ends.