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Pride of the Borough East End Life, Issue 456, p. 11, 5-11 May, 2003 http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/templates/news/detail.cfm?newsid=1591
THE borough's best were awarded for their tireless efforts for the community at this year's Tower Hamlets Civic awards. ORGANISED by Tower Hamlets Council, the awards are presented to local people who have improved the quality of life for residents. Award winners were honoured for their outstanding service to the community, for being a credit to the borough through sporting, cultural or artistic activities, for running a successful business from which the community has benefited and for outstanding achievement. K M Taher Choudhury was presented with a Civic Award for his work as the chair of the Greater Sylhet Development and Welfare Council. He has arranged workshops for developing management skills, job search training, campaigns against drugs, racism and discrimination.
Best of the borough He is also the founder of the Bangladesh Journalist Association. Tireless health care campaigner Myra Garrett was awarded for her 25 years service to the community. Until she retired Ms Garrett, 70, was an active member of the Tower Hamlets Community Health Council, founder member and worker on the Tower Hamlets Health Campaign, which campaigned to keep Mile End Hospital working as a general hospital. She was a founder member of Social Action for Health, now called the Tower Hamlets Health Strategy Group, and a founder member and volunteer of the Friends of St Clements Hospital. Abdul Ghani was awarded for his 20 years of tireless community work which includes with Tenants and Residents Association and the Shadwell Jame Masjid, which he helped to establish. Anna Moffat won recognition for her work with Isle of Dogs residents. Among her community efforts Ms Moffat set up the East London Business Alliance, a community project involving churches on the Island. She has also set up a community website, and is a reading companion at Arnham Wharf Primary School, and has established a créche and IT learning group for mothers wanting to return to work. John Per has chaired the council's Accessible Transport Consultative Forum since it started in 1997. Mr Per has tirelessly championed the cause of the mobility impaired, working to improve the life of people with mobility difficulties in Tower Hamlets, and raise awareness generally. Barkantine resident Fred Quatromini was awarded for his work for the community on the Isle of Dogs. Mr Quatromini was one of the first on the scene after the John Tucker House explosion and made sure the residents were warm and comfortable. He is also a founder member of the Barkantine Management Team and was instrumental in setting up the Alpha Grove Community Trust and Centre. Moin Uddin has been working for the community since he moved to Tower Hamlets in 1982. As well as working as an outreach worker for the Bangladesh Welfare Association he was elected vice chair of the East London Awami League in 1990. He also formed and organised the Collingwood Estate Mother Tongue Association and has been an active member Collingwood Estate Tenants Association. Former bank manager Patrick Ward turned his back on Barclays in order to help the Docklands Settlement. Involved with the community centre since the 1980s Mr Ward has re-invented it, turning it from a hardly used building in place used by twenty or so user groups which plays host nearly a thousand people a week. Bow resident Jeanne Wiseman ahs been active in the community for the past 30 years. Founder of the Antill Area Residents Association, she has campaigned tirelessly for her neighbours, and helped find the funding to renovate and restore the Victorian houses there that would have been demolished otherwise.
Rewards for Jeanne Wiseman for campaigning for the community Ms Wiseman has also been a board member of the Tower Hamlets Consortium, the Bow People's Trust and currently sits on the management board of the New Outward Support Services. The borough's sporting talents were also commended.
Athlete, health campaigner, dance star, sports star and youth campaigner World-class athlete Symone Belle, xx, was awarded for her sporting achievement. At present Symone is the UK's top hurdler and long jumper in the under-20s group, and is ranked third in the world for the U20 60m hurdles. A desire to dance led to Kim Hang Ly being awarded. Despite family opposition Ms Ly went to train to be a dance teacher and is now a part of the Adults Other Than Teachers programme in Tower Hamlets, where she teaches dance in local primary schools. An accountant for 30 years Rab Howlander has given work experience to countless local youngsters and provides jobs locally. He is an active member of the Bangladesh Accountants Association and through his Rotary Club works tirelessly for charity. Abdul Azim was awarded for outstanding achievement for his voluntary work with the borough's youngsters. Only 18-years-old himself, Abdul has been involved with numerous groups on a voluntary basis including Tower Hamlets Summer University, Millennium Volunteer and LEAP conflict resolution training. Raine's Foundation School pupil Adrian Pettigrew was awarded for his outstanding sporting contribution. Regarded as one of England's top sporting schoolboys, he has represented the country in football and basketball as well as holding a British athletics record. And vocal 12-year-old Tasneem Waafa Saiki was awarded for involving young people in the borough in decision making processes. This year's winners were chosen by a panel consisting of the mayor, Cllr Salim Ullah, Labour and Liberal councillors, representatives of the business community and the Deputy Lieutenant of Tower Hamlets John Ludgate, who represents the Queen. Claire Rudd Reports. Photos by Dave Sinclair Copyright © 2003 EastEnd Life |
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