News from September 2009
Keep up to date with all the latest SKIP news! Here you’ll find out what all our branches have been up to across the UK and around the world.
SKIP Co-ordinator wins Global Action Award
Danny Hutley, has been awarded the 2009 Sheila McKechnie Foundation (SMK) Global Action Award for his work raising awareness of global health issues through, amongst other ventures, his work as SKIP National Co-ordinator over the past year.
SMK, a charity dedicated to connecting, informing and supporting campaigners, announced the winners of its 2009 Awards at a special ceremony in London last week.
The awards recognise the outstanding contribution that a new generation of campaigners are making towards achieving social, environmental and economic justice both in the UK and abroad.
In deciding the award the judges were particularly impressed by the structural reform within SKIP that was initiated by Danny over the past year and carried out by our Executive Board, and National and Branch Committees.
Such structural reform is akin to the likes of a lot bigger charities and to achieve this with virtually no resources without compromising our ideals of evidence-based practice was highly commended by the judges.
Furthermore, the charity's aspirations for community empowerment drew particular admiration.
The prize will be particularly beneficial to SKIP as Danny is partnered with a professional mentor for the next 6 months and provided with support to help SKIP not only in an advisory role but also through publicity and networking.
SKIP would like to pass on our congratulations to Danny for the award and thank him and all our volunteers for their efforts that have made SKIP a multi-award winning charity in 2009!
Well done everyone!
SKIP – The best project in the world?
SKIP has been awarded 1st prize in the Projects Fair Competition at the 58th International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) General Assembly.
The IFMSA is an independent, non-governmental and non-political federation of medical students' associations throughout the world.
The meeting, held in Tunisia in March 2009, saw a gathering of 102 National Member Organizations from 100 countries on six continents and represented more than 1 million medical students worldwide.
The UK was represented by Medsin, of which SKIP is a member. The Projects Fair Competition examined affiliated members’ projects and decided that SKIP had demonstrated one of the best student-led global health projects in the World over the course of 2008-2009.
The prize was graciously accepted by Anushka Mehrotra (SKIP Newcastle Co-ordinator 2008-09 and SKIP National Assistant Co-ordinator 2009-10) who represented SKIP at the conference.
