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Senyo Aidam – London Citizens Campaigner


Profile: Senyo is an impressive and talented young man. He has campaigned to make London safer for young people as part of the CitySafe Campaign. He has just finished college and wants to study Economics at Birmingham University. (Senyo was the only person in his school to get an A at A-Level maths in his class.) World-Makers.com believes that having achieved so much at such a young age, Senyo has a bright future ahead of him if he maintains his never-give-up attitude and moral convictions. He is a model to young people across the globe.

Senyo Recommends:
Book:
“Free your Mind” – Andrew Mohammed
Song:
“Retrospect For Life” – Common
Film:
Freedom Writers

Most Interesting Answer:

If you were a fruit, vegetable or animal, what would you be and why?

I would say a monkey because first of all, I like monkeys and I think they’re interesting! Monkeys are always climbing and consistently swinging. You look at them and think to yourself, “how on earth are they just chilling on the branch for so long?” But they have that within them, and they know they have that ability and they can consistently keep climbing. They don’t stop climbing, they’re going up up and up. And you think to yourself, “why are they doing this?” but they know why they’re doing this. When I say monkeys people laugh, but at the same time there’s nothing funny about what they’re doing. It’s kind of dangerous because they’re climbing, swinging and jumping from tree to tree, but yet they are okay. The idea of doing dangerous things that other people may not have the confidence or the courage to do, I like to do them. But yet I’m still a fairly lighthearted person, like i can have a joke and stuff!

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Rebecca Coleman – CitySafe Campaigner


Profile: Rebecca has just graduated from Oxford University and began working for TELCO (The East London Communities Organisation). She stimulates discussion among people to find out ways of tackling youth violence in Hackney, East London. She is a doer, and has organised big meetings to get decision makers in politics and business to contribute and commit to the CitySafe Campaign. Rebecca gets people together to make a real difference.

Rebecca Recommends:
Book:
“Tess of the D’urbervilles” – Thomas Hardy
Song:
“Bad” – Michael Jackson
Film:
Gran Torino

Most Interesting Answer:

What problem would you like to see solved before you die?

I think maybe attitudes towards homelessness and homeless people. Particularly in Oxford, people would just class anyone in the street as a drug-addict or alcoholic and therefore not worth knowing or speaking to or associating with. But they should realise that everyone has their problems: some people deal with it, some people can’t deal with it. Sometimes people end up on the streets and it’s not always through choice. They don’t wake up one day and say, “I’m gonna become a homeless person and yeah, just drink because that’s exactly what I want to do, that’s my ambition.” Obviously people love having other people around them, having a home, having some kind of income. So I think if before I die if people thought more about why people are homeless rather than just class them as homeless and therefore unworthy, that would be a good thing.

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