Recognition for A* grade schoolchildren - Somali Youth Development Resource Centre (SYDRC) hosts awards ceremony
Published: 24 March 2011
by JAMIE WELHAM
HUNDREDS of Somali schoolchildren attended a glittering awards ceremony to celebrate their educational achievements over the past year.
Now in their tenth year, the awards were hosted by the Kentish Town-based Somali Youth Development Resource Centre (SYDRC) at the London Irish Centre on Thursday evening. Among the prizewinners for their clutch of A* grades at GCSE were Camden School for Girls pupils Sundas Mohamoud and Bilan Mohamed, and Aisha Isse from Haverstock School. Awards were presented by Deputy Mayor of London Richard Barnes and leader of Camden council Nasim Ali.
Pictured: from left Aisha Isse, Sundus Mohamoud and Bilan Mohamed, with Sundus’s father and Deputy London Mayor Richard Barnes.