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Millennium award case studies
Some of the 255 people who received a Millennium award have told us in more depth about their experiences of leading community initiatives to improve health in London. In the case studies below, they describe their projects, the challenges they faced and some of the lessons learnt.
Lucrecia Janowicz ran a series of talks presented in Spanish for elderly Latin Americans on a range of health problems common among older people.![[pdf]](/display_images/document_icons/pdf.gif){kind=icon}
Jeffrey Breslaw trained as a facilitator to provide support, counselling, education and empowerment for family carers of people with mental illness.
Imo Akpan ran six health education workshops in Fulham on topics such as khat addiction, diabetes and sickle cell disease. 
Rita Melifonwu developed multimedia tools to educate people about stroke.
Dave Neita ran poetry workshops across London for people with mental health problems and their carers. 
Karen Hawkins, Joanne Crow and Rebecca Hankins set up a project to provide support and advice to other parents of premature babies across London, and to raise awareness of parental needs among neonatal staff. 
Elizabeth Travis and David Hogarth matched older people in the London borough of Westminster into pairs to enable them to support one another through regular telephone contact. 
Bernadette Igboaka helped raise awareness of the benefits to school children of eating a balanced diet, and encouraged more use of ethnic foods in Haringey, north London. 
Peter Twist and Garry Brough set up a patient advisory group at an HIV open-access clinic in Camden, north London.
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