by yolandamapfurire | Jul 15, 2020 | Everyday Heroes
Meet Dr Shade Agboola. Her passion for treating preventable diseases started in Nigeria while working to help prevent children dying from malaria and malnutrition. Now in Warwickshire she’s doing the job that is arguably the most critical to local government’s...
by yolandamapfurire | Jul 9, 2020 | Everyday Heroes
Meet Gill Guy-Edwards. A proud Liverpudlian yet equally proud to call Stoke-on-Trent her second home. “I’ve been blown away with the warmth and community of Stoke-on-Trent, it’s an incredible place with a real heart. They have adopted me,” says Gill. As Interim...
by yolandamapfurire | Jul 7, 2020 | Everyday Heroes
Meet Harris Beaumont. He’s got one of the most diverse careers yet for a hero or indeed anyone for that matter. He started as domestic help in a residential home run by Walsall Council and was quickly promoted to a caring role. Meanwhile in his private life, he had...
by yolandamapfurire | Jul 1, 2020 | Everyday Heroes
Meet Olivia Cooper. “Exhausted. Intense. Full on.” These are the words Olivia uses to describe the first weeks of lockdown, before adding, “Incredible. Amazing. A privilege.” It’s certainly been a privilege to hear her story. Olivia’s day job – pre becoming a PPE...
by yolandamapfurire | Jun 24, 2020 | Everyday Heroes, Social Care
Meet Sarah Totten. She works for Stoke-on-Trent City Council under the Director of Adult Social Care, Health Integration and Wellbeing. Sarah and her team are very much on the front line; she’s the link between hospitals and care homes – and has responsibilities for...
by yolandamapfurire | Jun 18, 2020 | Everyday Heroes
Meet Jamie Lewis. He is Assistant Waste Management Superviser and he makes sure residents in Nuneaton and Bedworth get their bins emptied every week. Waste collection is quite possibly the main council service that’s really gone up the rankings in terms of public...
