New Staff Member, New Partners, New Campaigns...

London Recruit Outlines New Strategies

Our Fundraising and Marketing Office in London has a new staff member. Faryal Awan, Fundraising and PR Officer, joined SJEH in June 2010. She has an MSc in Middle East Politics from the Schoolof Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and has experience volunteering and living in Palestine. She is passionate about healthcare and human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT).   

Faryal has taken on the task of broadening and diversifying our audience and donor base, with special focus on creating links with the Muslim and Jewish populations of the UK.

Reaching out to the next generation: Volunteering and Presentations.

With an ageing supporter base, it Is also vitally important that our charity reach out to new audiences. Young people offer a pool of untapped potential and we are currently looking at new ways to benefit from their volunteerism, energy and creativity. 

We are most grateful to our friends in the London Universities’ Palestinian Societies.  With their kind help and support, we were able to obtain a presence at Fresher’s Fairs across London: at SOAS, at the London School of Economics, at Kings College London and at Queen Mary University.  We are also thankful to our new friends at the Muslim College, with whom we will be working closely in the coming years. 

We will also be organising awareness raising events at University Student Unions’ across London and looking to expand this programme nation-wide.

We have various volunteering/interning opportunities at our London offices. If you have passion for the cause and would like to enhance your fundraising/marketing skills, why not intern with us for a while? 

If you are a university lecturer or school teacher and would like your students to know more about eye care and blindness, or life in the OPT, we have an array of experienced and enthusiastic speakers who would love to come and speak to you.

For more information please contact Faryal on 0207 553 6964 or at Faryal [dot] Awan [at] stjohneyehospital [dot] org.

Faryal Awan

Fundraising and PR Officer