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NRI Charan Gill Canadian Community and Social Justice Activist, Passes Away

LA, Feb 02, 2021
Gary Singh

It is with the deepest sorrow that we announce the death of our father, Charan Gill, on February 2, 2021 following a battle with cancer. He took his last breath at Langley Memorial Hospital surrounded by family.

Honours and Awards

• Human Rights Award, MOSAIC (1983)
• Member, Order of British Columbia (1999)
• VanDusen Community Service Award, United Way (2002)
• Community Award, BC Achievement Foundation (2010)
• Top 25 Canadian Immigrants Award, Canadian Immigrant magazine (2010)
• Distinguished Service Award, BC Association for Social Workers (2011)
• Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012)
• Honorary Doctor of Laws, Kwantlen Polytechnic University (2013)
• Lifetime Achievement Award, Drishti magazine (2016)
• Denise LeBlond Lifetime Achievement Award, BC Non-Profit Housing Association (2017)
  
  

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NRI Charan Gill will be honoured with the Pravasi Community Awards, 2007

LA, Dec 29, 2006
Gary Singh

Four persons of Indian origin will be honoured with the Pravasi Community Awards, 2007 for their services to the diaspora and Indian causes at a convention in New Delhi .

Charan Gill had founded British Columbia Organization to Fight Racism and co-founded Canadian Farm Workers Union. He is President CEO of Progressive Indo-Canadian Community Services Society.

Charan Gill of Surrey has been a volunteer working for social justice for the disadvantaged, the poor and immigrants for the past 25 years. In 1978 he co-founded the Canadian Farmworkers Union to improve the human rights, health and safety and employment standards of farm workers. He is an executive member of the B.C. Human Rights Coalition and President of the B.C. Organization to Fight Racism. He is founder of the Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society and the Rainbow Community Health Co-operative, which works to meet the social and health needs of hundreds of people in his community.
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Canadian Farm Workers Union

"Farmworkers are Canada's forgotten workers. They work in the fields and harvest the crops that feed us. They work in slave-like conditions for 12-14 hours a day and are paid piece rate. They travel in overcrowded buses to the fields or live in converted chicken coops. Many suffer chronic health problems because of exposure to pesticides during every working day." - CFU spokesman Charan Gill, June, 1994........Full Story