A scholarship for Black students studying health professions has been established in the name of community and health advocate Phyllis Marsh-Jarvis, the first woman in Nova Scotia ordained by the African Orthodox Church.
The Health Association of African Canadians (HAAC) will announce the two inaugural recipients of the scholarship at the Black Cultural Centre in Cherry Brook on Saturday.
Phyllis Marsh-Jarvis who died in 2021, was a co-president and long-standing director of rural and community engagement in Sydney for HAAC.
Archy Beals, chair of HAAC’s scholarship committee, said the two inaugural scholarship recipients were selected from about 20 to 25 applicants who identify as Black.
In 2015 Phyllis Marsh-Jarvis became the first woman in Nova Scotia ordained by the African Orthodox Church. In 2016, she took over as rector at St. Philip’s African Orthodox Church in Whitney Pier.
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