Originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, I've trained at The School of Physical Theatre. My passion lies in devising and performing in original works. Having created an educational show for young people about Climate Change and Global Warming, the play has moved from being a roadshow at Green Festivals around London to being part of a package presented to Primary Schools to help them become 'greener' and more energy efficient.
I'm also a very active Climate Change campaigner and activist and have made big changes in my own life to lessen my 'carbon footprint' on the planet. A couple of these include buying a bicycle, reusing and recycling as much waste as I can and not flying! I believe that real change starts with immediate personal action and spreads out from there.
I am a 23 year old medical student at the University of Aberdeen. I have a previous degree in Organic and Analytical Chemistry and plan to become a renal transplant surgeon upon graduation. I am a strong believer in the fact that health care is a basic human right and strive on every level to bring health care to the needy. Medical missions are my passion and have led to me amazing medical placements in India, Oman, the USA, the UK, Africa, Grenada, and, most recently, Palestine. I have worked as a general practitioner for people who cannot afford health care for years and can honestly say there is no greater way to help people. Through these travels I have found a purpose to my life in serving humanity and also want to help others find their purpose.
Despite Scientific advice and media coverage, we continue to rely on the planet in an unsustainable way, making it impoverished for ourselves and future generations. I want to get the message across that we have to start working with the planet rather than against it by examining their lifestyles and changing their habits to limit the damage we are doing.
Between jobs and university I have been engaged with a number of sustainable projects, which are as follows: I helped my father build a workshop from reclaimed materials and volunteered at White Hawk Primary School where I helped children to plant a garden and maintain their own outdoor area. I also volunteered for a group in Canada who provide organic food for people who find it difficult to cook for themselves, for which a rooftop garden supplied organic ingredients. I found this work particularly interesting and inspiring and have begun to set up a project in Brighton.
Born in London, I have always been very aware of my Nigerian heritage while growing up and have spent half my life in each country. I have a passion for setting up and coordinating community projects that give back to society through youth development.
In the last fourteen years, I have focused the minds of young people through martial arts, led motivational workshops providing career counselling for ethnic minority teenagers and coordinated a project dedicated to helping 15-16 year olds outside mainstream education. I have also counselled young people in mainstream education, provided a personal advisory service to young people in care, provided social care to the homeless and coordinated a weekend forum that helped many young people discover their potential. My latest community project achievement takes the form of 'Platform of creativity' youth development project that went into full swing January 2005 (www.platformofcreativity.com).
In today's global society the success of business and organisations should be measured in terms of their social and environmental impacts. After graduating from University in 2004 I founded Mozzo® in 2005 with the aim of creating a truly sustainable lifestyle brand built upon a unique blend of Fairtrade organic arabica coffee. Annoyed with the world we live in today, I enjoy challenging current realities, established ways of thinking and doing things. Mozzo® started by serving it's Fairtrade organic coffee from the world's first solar and wind powered art covered coffee cart.. proving that a sustainable future is possible if we just give it a go!
I'm an eco designer, and have worked on various community based projects helping the environment. I've designed and manufactured an old milk float converted into an environmental education unit, still in use today for a not for profit company in east London. I've also converted a four wheeled recumbrant bike to be used as an organic fruit and veg delivery bike, using eco design methods and systems to increase sustainability; and have designed a waste separating bin aimed at tower blocks, which I am currently developing.
I was born in Kinshasa, central Africa. Now in London, I founded Stockwell Park Football Club affiliated to the London FA, and am working to ward the FA charter standard club. I am also a youth Leader, leading Sunday school at The Salvation Army (Balham church). My mission is to educate, help, improve and make the environment and our communities safer. I like to volunteer and offer support information to anyone who would like to become a Football coach or referee. I feel good when I see people around me happy, busy and involved in activities.
Chair of the Coventry Youth Council until January 2006, I'm currently a Trustee of four national organisations: The National Youth Agency, British Youth Council, Phoenix Education Trust and Changemakers. I'm also the West Midlands Executive Council Member for English Secondary Students Association. In 2005, I was ratified by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry as a Council Member of the Coventry and Warwickshire Learning and Skills Council - the youngest Council member in the country. And in November 2006, I was appointed a Governor of City College, Coventry which is currently undertaking a £50m relocation which will regenerate one of the city's most deprived areas.
I have most recently been appointed to the Home Office's "What is Britishness" committee and am working with this department, the DCA and DfES on new strategies to promote the engagement of young people in policy making. I am working with Neil Kinnock at the British Council and Sir Jeremy Greenstock at the Ditchley Foundation on their current "New National Identities" seminars across the world. This September, I also became the youngest person to have co-authored a commissioned publication by Futurelab with a handbook on "Learner Voice".
As a child, I translated the literal into creativity, just the way children do. The snow on the telepraph wires became 'snow strings', the flames of a fire, 'dancers of a native song', and books and paintings came alive before me. I was a character of my own imagination.
As I grew older my creativity gave way to reality, and I forgot that child in me. A series of events have led me back to that quiet voice. I am now committed to translating the difficult reality of many people's lives into an inspirational creative masterpiece, a reality in which real differences can be made, even in seemingly unbearable circumstances. My degree in Politics gave me further in into issues affecting humanity, and I am now convicted in the plight of people suffering human rights abuses globally.
Professional DJ, and a vibrant energetic young Community Activist who represents the East Finchley Ward in North London when it comes down to Youth Culture. While DJing at Community Events such as festivals, Bingo Nights, Youth Disco's and Youth Clubs as well as running DJ Workshops in Primary & Secondary Schools, I also work on major Regeneration Programmes, designing new media products such as community websites, flyers and brochures.
Committee member of the Finchley Community Development Trust, Strawberry Vale Steering Group and the Green Man User Committee.
DJ V UK's main goal is to help people out of deprivation, especially young people, as they are tomorrow's future.
I'm an entrepreneur and feel I have a great future ahead of me: a plan to change the world or at least make a positive impact on society. I am chairman for both EC1 and City youth forums. I've embarked on an award-winning project called Young Leaders Against Crime that involved a trip to New York City to gather and contrast information from both London and New York about youth-related crime. I have also completed a Youth Voluntary Course and Events Management Course, and have created my own drama company called Drama From Da Streets, dedicated to theatre and film productions tackling youth culture. We have performed at Youth Democracy Day and Universal Children's Day in conjunction with the Red Cross.
I am currently writing for a local magazine called Young City and beginning to write my own book, Through The Eyes Of A Juvenile. Furthermore, I write my own lyrics to hip hop beats concentrating on my own life experiences and making a better place for everyone. Lastly and my most desirable goal in life, to become a professional footballer and I currently have trials with Tottenham FC, Crystal Palace FC & Fulham FC (wish me luck)!
Conceptual illusionist Christopher Howell is a life coach who uses the performance of live magic to explore and explain topics around the themes of achievement, change, and personal development. Hailing originally from Michigan, USA, he has been based in London since 1994. Christopher has been doing magic since he was seven years old, is a member of the Magic Circle and has a diploma in life coaching.