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| Volunteer
of the Year |
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Sponsored
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 Tracey
Reddings, executive director of CAF, presents Gill Adams
with her award, while the awards' host Dominic Holland
looks on |
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| WINNER:
Gill Adams (ORBIS) |
| Gill
Adams has travelled to India, China, Vietnam, Ethiopia
and Jamaica to teach local eye surgeons how to treat eye
diseases in Children. Despite the long hours that she
must work as an ophthalmologist at Moorfield’s Eye
Hospital and raising two children of her own, Gill has
set aside time to give to ORBIS and its fight to eradicate
avoidable blindness worldwide. Gill has demonstrated her
total involvement - on one trip she was found to be lecturing
or teaching for 12 hours a day - and she maintains communication
with her trainees abroad through the internet, in addition
to helping the organisation with its fundraising, recruitment
and internal training. |
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| HIGHLY
COMMENDED: Fay Hall (Stroke Care) |
| Fay
Hall founded Stroke Care in 2002, and has developed an
organisation that addresses many of the social issues
that affect stroke victims in Southwark. Previously, and
currently, a volunteer for a number of organisations,
Fay became especially interested in helping stroke victims
after a member of her own family suffered from a stroke,
and discovered that care was at times patchy. Fay has
developed, fundraised, and created partnerships for the
organisation, and from nothing created a comprehensive
service and continues to actively direct the organisation
as a volunteer. |
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SHORTLIST: Alexander Highlands (CSV) |
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many years of voluntary work, Alexander joined RSVP (the
Retired and Senior Volunteer Programme) in 1989. As a
part of CSV, this organisation seeks to utilise the talents
and experience of volunteer over the age of 50. For over
15 years Alexander has dedicated his time to building
up a force of 500 older volunteers in the Greater Manchester
area to provide community services, and he has done this
despite his own physical disabilities. |
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