Well done to friend and 2020 Education supporter Susan Poopla

Susan Popoola wins Author of the Year Award at Women4Africa 2013

Conning Towers Ltd and Engaged For Success CIC are proud to announce that Director and Founder Susan Popoola, has won the “Author of The Year” Category at the Annual Women4Africa Awards 2013.

Director of Conning Towers Ltd, Human Resources Consultancy and Engaged for Success CIC, Susan Popoola has successfully written and published two books: Touching The Heart of Milton Keynes (now in its Second Edition) and Consequences: Diverse to Mosaic Britain. Susan also blogs on Human Resources (HR) subjects from Business, Community and Global Perspectives for a number of publications aligned to her work and experiences in HR, Social Enterprise, Community and Education. Susan is known for writing that takes readers on reflective journeys as she tackles challenging subjects and presents them in a simple form that makes her writing accessible.

Women4africa is a UK registered organisation focused on celebrating and empowering Africa and its women by supporting and celebrating their role in their communities via Conferences, supporting education and an awards ceremony honouring women identified and nominated by the public. The Women4Africa Awards took place on May 18th 2013 at the Great Hall in Kensington.

Reflections

When you look at what is takes to run a big event it amazes me what was achieved at the 2020 Ambassadors training event 2013. They ran 2 large events back to back as well as focussing on other 2020 education issues.

These two events were overwhelmingly successful and helped boost the profile of 2020 Education. The showcase event had a 4 camera live filming team, a pop up radio station, live bloggers, tour guides to take guests round our "journey of 2020 education" art installation. Presentations from schools and young people and I felt very proud this was all the work of young people who had only known each other for 3 days. It shows what is possible when the mind becomes focussed.

So it gives me great hope for the success of 2020 Education in the future and as I reflect on the 4 corner stones to which I measure success, I can tick them off one by one:

1. Was the project educational - Yes
2. Did the project involve active participation - Yes
3. Was the project inclusive - Yes
4. Did the project empower young people - Yes

Well done to the staff team who facilitated this process but even bigger well done to the young people who proved once again we should not underestimate young people in their abilities to make things happen.