Wediko has received numerous awards, including a 60 Year Service Award from the Massachusetts House of Representatives and a Day of Appreciation from the City of Boston.
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At the age of six, Heidi was sent to United States and placed in an orphanage run by the Holt Adoption Agency.
Analysis by Robert Costanza also around 1995 of nature's services and their value showed that a great deal of degradation of nature's ability to clear waste, prevent erosion, pollinate crops, etc., was being done in the name of monetary profit opportunity: this was adding to GDP but causing a great deal of long term risk in the form of mudslides, reduced yields, lost species, water pollution, etc.
In April 2010, after an American mother put her unwanted 7-year-old Russian-adopted son on a plane alone to Russia, Joint Council organized a petition to Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev with over 11,000 signatures discouraging Russia from freezing its international adoption program.
It is operated by Westwind Children's Services, a nonprofit operator of several other Phoenix-area charter schools, dba Westwind Community Schools.