One of the major initiatives of The Asper Foundation is its Human Rights and Holocaust Studies Program. The program objectives are to promote tolerance and sensitize Canadian grade nine age high school students to the consequences of racism through a specially designed education program.
 
This year, a group of Jewish students from Edmonton participated in the Asper Foundation program which took them on a 4 day journey through Washington, DC, visiting historical monuments and the United States National Holocaust Museum.
Click here to read an article written by participant, Mettannah Jacobson