Your skills: meet our British Council Alumni Award winners
Did you know two Sussex alumni were global winners at the 2019 British Council Alumni Awards?
Every year the British Council celebrates the UK’s most outstanding alumni and the impact they have on their professions, communities and countries around the world.
Next week you can meet Réjane and Mamunur and hear their stories at the Global Alumni Awards winners talk:
Thursday 17 October, 5.30pm to 7pm
Chowen Lecture Theatre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Réjane Woodroffe (MSc Development Economics 2005) is the co-founder of the award-winning non-for-profit Bulunga Incubator, which challenges rural poverty in South Africa by improving education, health and sustainable livelihoods. Her work has had a direct impact on 6,000 people and helped thousands more through contributions to the South African government’s development interventions.
Mamunur Rahman (MA Gender and Development 2007) was recognised for Ella Pads, his innovation that transforms leftover clothing material into sanitary products. Ella Pads support more than 50,000 women with better health, hygiene and employment opportunities by helping to reduce absenteeism rates in factories and schools.