Liz has worked in the corporate world 
here in Calgary and eastern Canada for over 45 years.  Five years ago she had the opportunity to sell her legal recruitment business and retire.

She thoroughly enjoys being retired and spends her free time either on a spin bike, weight training and walking her 2 year old Old English Sheepdog Lola and travelling to far off exotic locations like Japan, Hong Kong, biking through Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Morocco, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zanzibar, hiking across England (twice!), hiking in Switzerland, New Zealand, and Australia and a long bucket list of locations yet to be explored.  

Liz has a love of fashion and design.  Over the years she has built and renovated numerous homes for herself and husband Peter and their children Talia and Alex.  Her love of interior design resulted in their Springbank home being featured in Western Living and Avenue magazine.

While travelling in Rwanda, she fell in love with the country and its people.

Liz is currently on the Board of the charitable organization Rwanda Seniors Life Centre which is currently fundraising to build a senior's home in Kigali, Rwanda.  In Rwanda  there are no Senior's homes...it is their culture to look after their mothers and fathers in their old age, but with the genocide over 20 years ago, a whole generation of family members were wiped out leaving a large number of senior citizens living alone and isolated with no one to look after them.

She is also involved with the Wellspring Foundation in Rwanda who provide quality education from  Kindergarden to grade 10 - the students include orphaned and impoverished children.   She attended their very first gradation class in 2016 in Kigali.

The Rwanda Seniors Life Centre: Purpose and Goals

The goal of the Rwanda Seniors Life Centre is to provide food, shelter, clothing, and healthcare to Rwandan seniors that are survivors of the 1994 Genocide.  Our aim is to promote physical activity, reduce loneliness and address overall health concerns.  Rwanda Seniors Life Centre plans to build a senior Centre with a capacity for up to 200 residents.  Seniors will be housed in shared rooms, with two residents per room to promote a more family like environment and to eliminate loneliness. Also the centre's goal is to promote a social environment, reduce acute social isolation and enhance overall quality of life through fellowship, dignity and compassionate care and a healthy environment.

Nikola will gratefully accept donations for the Rwanda Seniors Life Centre until the end of October, 2017.  

Bryn Walker Cotton Bamboo Dress, Soma Mo Jewellery.