Tags: Moving Up

In this post you can read about my internal placement with the events team at MDUK in their London office.

I first heard about the Moving Up Project from a Trailblazers representative talking at a Young Person’s hospital group that I attend monthly. A few of the members of the group had already done a placement at MDUK, so I was interested to find out more.

Christina Lee has SLE and paraplegia. She is from Kent and has just finished her MA in English Literature at King’s College London, specialising in disability in literature.

Roya Sattari, Iranian international student at Brunel University.

Hema Shan, aged 24, has Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSH)  and lives in Newham.

On Saturday 9th July, I was invited to speak at the most recent Trailblazers “Moving Up” employability event.

Jack McLellan, 24, from the London Borough of Havering has an undiagnosed form of muscular dystrophy. He’s spent two months on a placement in the Care, Information and Advocacy department as part of the Trailblazers work experience project Moving Up.

Ronit Himatlal, aged 23, has Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus. He is spending the summer with the Trailblazers campaigns team as part of his work experience placement on the Moving Up project.

Ronit Himatlal, 23, who lives in the London Borough of Harrow, is spending his summer at the Muscular Dystrophy UK office on work experience with the Moving Up project.

Jack McLellan, 24. from Havering, has an undiagnosed form of muscular dystrophy. He’s on a two month work experience placement, as part of Trailblazer’s Moving Up project, with Muscular Dystrophy UK’s Care, Information and Advocacy department.