Barack Ojiem is a Kenyan 2011 Commonwealth Professional Fellow, hosted by Widows and Orphans International. He works at Hope for Victoria Children, an NGO that rehabilitates and reintegrates street children. I am a line manager responsible for rehabilitation and...
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Professional Fellow gains insight into advocacy for disabled people in Ghana
Charles Appiagyei is a 2011 Commonwealth Professional Fellow from Ghana. He is the National Administrator of the Ghana Society of the Physically Disabled (GSPD). His Fellowship was hosted by the Council of Disabled People. My remit back home relates to developing...
Professional Fellow aims to motivate staff and volunteers on return to Kenya
Beth Akinyi Odingo is a 2011 Commonwealth Professional Fellowship, who spent three months at Widows and Orphan International. She works as a Project Coordinator at the Omega Foundation in Kenya. My role rotates around coordinating staff, volunteers, and the project....
Professional Fellow working with marginalised communities in Western Kenya
Gabriel Sam Amolo is a 2011 Commonwealth Professional Fellow from Kenya. His Fellowship was hosted by Widows and Orphans International. I am a Kenyan currently working with an NGO as Deputy Director in charge of programmes and fundraising. I am responsible for...
Professional Fellows learns about organisational sustainability
Olanike Folashade Edetan is a 2011 Commonwealth Professional Fellow from Nigeria. She is studying for an MSc at the Department of Physical, Analytical and Environmental Chemistry at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. Her Fellowship was hosted by The Haven...
Scholar wins two prizes for MSc studies
Edward Olaniru, 2010 Commonwealth Scholar from Nigeria, recently graduated from his MSc Pharmacology and Biotechnology course at Sheffield Hallam University with a Distinction. He was also awarded two prizes: the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing Biosciences Prize for...
Inspiring women in the field of pharmacy
Dr Frances Owusu-Daaku (1986 Commonwealth Scholar from Ghana, PhD Pharmacy at the University of Manchester and 2000 Commonwealth Fellow at the School of Pharmacy) and Dr Rita Akosua Dickson (2003 Commonwealth Scholar from Ghana, PhD in Pharmacognocy, King’s College...
Scientific research leads to international prize
Dr Julie Makani (1995 Commonwealth Shared Scholar from Tanzania, Diploma in Internal Medicine, Imperial College London) has won the Royal Society Pfizer Award 2011 for her research into sickle cell disease. She will receive £60,000 towards a 12-month study which aims...
Scientific research leads to international prize
Dr Julie Makani (1995 Commonwealth Shared Scholar from Tanzania, Diploma in Internal Medicine, Imperial College London) has won the Royal Society Pfizer Award 2011 for her research into sickle cell disease. She will receive £60,000 towards a 12-month study which aims...
Commonwealth Scholar in top 200 Young South Africans list
Elizabeth Mills, a 2009 Commonwealth Scholar, has been named as one of the Mail & Guardian's top 200 Young South Africans. Elizabeth is about to start the third-year of her PhD in Development Studies at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex....
