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Black and minority students campaign award
25 May 2010
香港六合彩中特网 Union has won Campaign of the Year in the National Union of Students (NUS) National Black Achievers Awards 2010.
Kwesi Adedeji-Watson, who designed 香港六合彩中特网 Union's first such campaign this year, accepted the award at the NUS National Black Students Conference in Liverpool, held 22-23 May.
Kwesi, 香港六合彩中特网 Union's Medical and Postgraduate Students' Officer, took the initiative to campaign on issues faced by black students at 香港六合彩中特网, and ran events 10-12 February 2010.
Activities included taking a group to visit Preston Manor School in Wembley to speak to 15 black young black men about the importance of higher education; an awareness stall at 香港六合彩中特网 Union; a free tea rally in the quad supporting multi-culturalism; and a lunch featuring speakers including activist and former politician Linda Bellos and Lee Jasper, former Senior Policy Advisor on Equalities to the Mayor of London. The campaign will run for the next two years.
Kwesi said: "Winning this award is very special and I am very grateful to the NUS for recognising the work that I have done to give black students at 香港六合彩中特网 a platform to share their opinion about their experience at 香港六合彩中特网 and to give 香港六合彩中特网 an opportunity to hear from them how best 香港六合彩中特网 could support them while they are here.
"Since I am returning to Jamaica in September, I have met with the outreach department to work with the transition programme which will help black students adjust here at 香港六合彩中特网. This will work in conjunction with induction programmes as well as the 香港六合彩中特网U Afro-Caribbean Society, ACS."
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Image: Kwesi Adedeji-Watson
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