Ukugcina umlando wesifunda kubalulekile ukuze izizukulwane ezizayo ziqonde ifa lazo. I- Inhlangano Yezokuvakasha yaseCaribbean (I-CTO) ithole umbalisi wezindaba ophelele eTrinidad owazalelwa eCanada uRita Cox obhala ngefa laseCaribbean, futhi uzomhlonipha ngeLifetime Achievement Award ngesikhathi sesidlo sasemini seMedia Day Toronto ngo-Agasti 22.
Umsebenzi wasemtatsheni wezincwadi, uCox ungumbalisi wezindaba owaziwayo futhi ongumholi ohlonishwayo emphakathini. Ujoyine umtapo wolwazi womphakathi waseToronto njengomtapo wolwazi wezingane ngo-1960 kwathi ngo-1972 waba yinhloko yegatsha laseParkdale lapho wethula khona izinhlelo zokufunda nokubhala kanye nezinye izinhlelo ezazikhuthaza amasiko amaningi kulo lonke elaseToronto. Esesikhundleni sakhe, uCox waphayona i "Black Heritage and West Indian Resource Collection," eyaqanjwa kabusha ngo-1998 yaba yi “Black and Caribbean Heritage Collection.” Ngokushesha yaba elinye lamaqoqo aphelele kunawo wonke alolo hlobo eCanada nanamuhla, liyaqhubeka nokuba ngumthombo wokuziqhenya ngomphakathi.
"ICaribbean Tourism Organisation iyaluthakasela uthando lukaRita Cox lokuqhakambisa amagugu aseCaribbean ngeqoqo alenzele umtapo wolwazi waseToronto kanye nemicimbi yakhe yokuxoxa izindaba edlulisela umlando wethu esizukulwaneni esilandelayo," kusho uSylma Brown, umqondisi we-CTO-USA. "Ukuzibophezela kwakhe ekulondolozeni isiko laseCaribbean kanye nokuzinikela kwakhe ekugcineni lesi sifunda sisezingeni eliphakeme emphakathini waseCanada emashumini eminyaka edlule yingakho simhlonipha ngomklomelo wokuzuza impilo yakhe yonke."
UCox usungule i- “Cumbayah,” umkhosi wamagugu amnyama nokuxoxa izindaba. Njengombalisi wezindaba owaziwayo ojabulise izethameli emhlabeni wonke, futhi waqinisekisa ifa lokuxoxa izindaba lomtapo wolwazi womphakathi waseToronto ngokuqeqesha isizukulwane esisha sababalisi bezindaba, iningi labo okungabasebenzi bomtapo wolwazi njengamanje. Ngemuva kokuthatha umhlalaphansi emtatsheni wezincwadi womphakathi waseToronto ngo-1995, uCox waqokwa njengejaji lasenkantolo yobuzwe nguhulumeni waseCanada.
UCox uzuze imiklomelo eminingi, kufaka phakathi i-Canadian Library Association's Public Service Award kanye neBlack Achievement Award (1986). Ngo-1997, uDkt. Cox waqokwa njengelungu le-Order of Canada ngomsebenzi wakhe ovelele wokuxoxa izindaba nokubhala. Bobabili iWilfrid Laurier University neYork University bamnikeze iziqu zobudokotela ezihloniphekile.
LOKHO ONGAKUTHATHE KULESI SIHLOKO:
- The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) has found the perfect storyteller in Trinidad born Canadian Rita Cox who chronicles the Caribbean legacy, and will honor her with the Lifetime Achievement Award during the Media Day luncheon in Toronto on August 22.
- She joined the Toronto public library as a children's librarian in 1960 and in 1972 she became the head of the Parkdale branch where she launched literacy programs and other initiatives that promoted multiculturalism throughout Toronto.
- “The Caribbean Tourism Organization appreciates Rita Cox's passion for promoting Caribbean heritage through the collection she developed for the Toronto public library as well as her storytelling events that pass our history on to the next generation,” said Sylma Brown, director of CTO-USA.
