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Aspiring barrister raises £65,000 to realise Cambridge Uni law course dream

‘I’m absolutely over the moon!’ Dylan Kawende tells Legal Cheek

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An aspiring barrister has crowdfunded £65,000 to cover the full costs of studying law at the University of Cambridge.

Following a successful fundraiser, Dylan Kawende will begin the two-year Law with Senior Status (SSL) course at Cambridge’s St Edmund’s College this October. According to his crowdfunding campaign page, the money raised will pay for his £40,000 course fees and £20,000 accommodation and living costs.

“I’m absolutely over the moon!” the 23-year-old tells Legal Cheek. “Words cannot capture the level of gratitude I’m feeling towards the people who’ve supported my campaign.”

For the Kawende, who studied history and philosophy of science the University College London (UCL), graduating with a 2:1 last year, this marks the end to his year-long campaign, ‘#GetDyl2Cambridge’.

In June 2019, Kawende initially set out to raise £66,000 in just eight weeks, in time for an October start. As reported by Legal Cheek at the time, Kawende explained how the postgraduate course wasn’t covered by student loans, and the scholarships available through the Inns of Court weren’t enough to cover the full cost. Meanwhile, Cambridge’s competitive scholarships are only available after students enrol in the autumn — by which point it’s too late.

Unable to reach his ambitious target in time, Kawende deferred his start-date and re-launched his fundraising campaign. Undeterred, the bar hopeful set a new target: to raise £60,000 by July 2020. If he couldn’t raise the funds by this date, Kawende’s Cambridge offer would be withdrawn.

The bar hopeful has now exceeded this target, raising over £65,000 through 1,400 donations since September. While a combination of family, friends and religious faith kept Kawende going during the challenging campaign, he stresses the importance of backing yourself.

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“I needed to have the self-belief and the tenacity to keep reaching out to donors and influencers even when it seemed like I’d hit a wall. My campaign experienced various peaks and troughs and it was important that I didn’t become discouraged during those dry periods,” he tells Legal Cheek

Kawende, the British-born son of two Rwandan genocide refugees who emigrated to the UK, cites the mishandling of the highly publicised Stephen Lawrence case as the inspiration for pursuing a career at the bar. In 1993, Lawrence, a black teenager, was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack by a gang of white youths in south east London.

The wannabe barrister also believes that the Black Lives Matter movement helped his cause. “I believe a lot of my supporters care about #BLM and recognise the need for systemic change,” says Kawende. “I made it clear from the outset that I’m motivated to pursue law primarily because I’m interested in becoming a steward for positive social change. To achieve this kind of change will require a plurality of actions above and beyond protests.”

Kawende believes that such change can occur through greater diversity at the bar, where black people continue to be underrepresented. He continues:

“Representation at bar matters now more than ever because barristers and judges are custodians of the law and exercise influence over the public good. To govern a society as diverse as Britain requires us to draw on the lived experiences of its diverse people.”

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Sex Education cast exclusive interview: Asa Butterfield, Emma Mackey, Ncuti Gatwa on relevance of the show in repressed nations - tv

It’s a wonder that Netflix’s Sex Education hasn’t been taken off the syllabus in India. It’s just been brushed under the table, like everything else that makes us uncomfortable. But when we can’t turn to formal education to provide us with answers, we must turn to popular entertainment. Fortunately, the lessons that Sex Education imparts upon its audience are vital, especially in a society that, for a brief while in 2019, saw Kabir Singh as a role model. Recalling a conversation he had with a Polish woman, star Asa Butterfield said that not just India, but audiences in several countries around the world were empowered to have difficult conversations after watching the show, which Netflix said in an official announcement was watched by over 40 million accounts within a month of its debut in early 2019.

Asa Butterfield in a still from Sex Education. “It was amazing to hear the impact the show had there,” Butterfield, who plays the enterprising teen sex therapist Otis Milburn in the show, told Hindustan Times in an interview. He said that even in Poland, “there isn’t a real sex education system in their schools. It’s not something that’s taught, it’s just something that’s brushed under the carpet, and you learn it when you learn it.” He called it a ‘destructive way of being.’ We should know, because we belong to a country in which attempts to introduce progressive curriculums is inevitably met with resistance. In 2019, an RSS affiliate organisation called the Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas said that there was ‘no need’ to teach children about issues as vital as ‘consent, harassment, respect for women, safety, family planning, and STD prevention’, as had been proposed to Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank. The organisation’s secretary even objected to the word ‘sex’. But it is perhaps because of this repression that films and television shows about ‘taboo’ topics have been doing uncommonly well. Actor Ayushmann Khurrana’s films, including his debut Vicky Donor, in which he played a sperm donor, and Dream Girl, in which he played a sex hotline operator, did gangbusters at the box office. Just last year, Netflix’s anthology film, Lust Stories, divided audiences right down the middle, with some having been blindsided by its overt content. Butterfield’s fellow cast member, Ncuti Gatwa, who is of Rwandan origin, said that he was surprised to learn how popular the show is among the youth there. “The themes that the show deals with are universal,” Gatwa, who plays Eric Effiong in the show, said, before coming up with the stinger: “Everybody is on this earth because of sex!” “It’s something that affects all of us, regardless of your attitude,” he said. “It’s something you can relate to, no matter where you are on the globe.”

Aimee Lou Wood and Emma Mackey in a still from Sex Education. Part of the reason why the show has been such a hit worldwide is because of how it addresses serious themes. While season one spoke about identity and abandonment, an important storyline in season two, which debuted on January 17 on the streaming service, deals with sexual assault and its aftermath. Emma Mackey, who plays the wonderfully complex Maeve Wiley in the show, said that she, too, was moved by the sensitivity with which the writers handled the character Aimee’s ordeal. “Aimee is such a ray of sunshine,” she said. “The fact that it happens to her hits home even more and makes it more visceral.” In season two, Aimee is subjected to a sexual attack on a bus to school. She laughs it off, initially, but over the course of the season can’t seem to shake off the experience. One of the most powerful moments of the season involves a squad of girls showing up for Aimee, and empowering her to take back control of her life. “Sexual assault is a very real, omnipresent thing,” Mackey said. “What we see this season is not only the act itself, but the decision to talk about it and get the justice system involved, and then after that we see Aimee’s character deal with what is essentially PTSD, which is a very real condition. A second can transform your entire existence.” Just days before the December 16th convicts march to the gallows, it would help to keep reminding ourselves of what Mackey said next: “There’s not a lot in place to help educate people – boys and girls – about (sexual assault).” There should be. Follow @htshowbiz for more The author tweets @RohanNaahar Read the full article

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Rwanda after President Paul Kagame

Rwanda after President Paul Kagame

This raises the question of 2017. Rwanda’s constitution requires Kagame to step down in four years, but already there are rumblings about changing it to allow him to stay on as president. Some of this is generated by the sycophancy expected of underlings wishing to remain in their leader’s good graces, but there are other, unusual, forces at work as well.

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Rwanda: Kagame yaba ntamahitamo afite koko?

Rwanda: Kagame yaba ntamahitamo afite koko?

cMuri iyi minsi hari abagaragaje ko bifuza ko ingingo y’101 y’Itegekonshinga yahinduka, manda zikarenga ebyiri kugira ngo Paul Kagame akomeze ategeke. Muri aba ngo hari abavuze ko bakwiyahura natongera kwiyamamaza.

Abakunze gutera urwenya, bongeyemo imvugo nyinshi mu rwego rwo gutebya. Bati:”natongera gutegeka nyuma y’2017, inka ntizizongera gukamwa yewe ntizizongera no kurisha, abandi…

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Rwanda : Nakumiro! Abarimu bamaze amezi atanu badahembwa

Rwanda : Nakumiro! Abarimu bamaze amezi atanu badahembwa

Mu minsi ishize nibwo ministre w’imari ambassadeur Gatete yavugiye mu Nteko abwira abadepite ko hari imishinga izacumbikwa kuko nta mafaranga yo kuyikora ahari.

Hirya no hino mu gihugu abarimu baratabaza ko batagihembwa hakaba hashize amezi 5. Muri ya système yo gutekinika ubutegetsi bwa Kagame bwamenyereje abanyarwanda, bakababwira ko ikibazo cyiri kuri listes bahemberwaho.

Ikibazo cyatangiriye…

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Rwanda : Raporo y’inama y’ishyaka RDI-Rwanda Rwiza.

Rwanda : Raporo y’inama y’ishyaka RDI-Rwanda Rwiza.

Ku cyumweru kuwa 21 Ukuboza 2014, inama y’ubuyobozi bwa RDI-Rwanda Rwiza yarateranye, iyobowe na Prezida w’Ishyaka, Nyakubahwa Faustin Twagiramungu. Mu ngingo zasuzumwe, harimo intambwe zatewe muri uyu mwaka turangiza, n’ibikorwa byihutirwa biteganyijwe mu mezi ari imbere. Ku byerekeye intambwe z’ingenzi zatewe mu mwaka wa 2014, mu byo inama yishimiye, twavuga ibi bikurikira:

Kuba ishyaka…

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How Rwanda's Paul Kagame Exploits U.S. Guilt - Howard W. French

How Rwanda’s Paul Kagame Exploits U.S. Guilt – Howard W. French

On an early April evening 20 years ago, an airplane carrying the president of Rwanda was mysteriously shot down, and the small Central African country launched itself into a killing spree that would last 100 days. Rwanda’s genocide was shocking: close-quarter, hand-to-hand butchery, mostly with machetes and other implements. Some 800,000 people were murdered after members of the country’s Tutsi…

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Indirimbo y'icyumweru: Umubano mu bantu.

Indirimbo y’icyumweru: Umubano mu bantu.

The Rwandan Dream Initiative Youth Indirimbo y’icyumweru.

UMUBANO MU BANTU – NKURUNZIZA FRANCOIS

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Ni umurage rusange wa ba sogokuruza Ali data ali na so bose barawusanze Ubasonzoranyiliza mu nzu y’amahoro Impumeko y’urukundo irakunda iraramba,bambe Umubano mu bantu

Ni wo uhuje amahanga ni wo ubumbye…

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PETITION : Ask 'Save the Children' to revoke their annual Global Legacy Award given to Tony Blair. @tonyblairoffice

PETITION : Ask ‘Save the Children’ to revoke their annual Global Legacy Award given to Tony Blair. @tonyblairoffice

‘Save the Children’, please revoke the award given to Tony Blair in supposed recognition of his vanguard leadership on the world’s international development stage. As an international children’s charity the choice of Tony Blair is not only controversial to say the least, as many see him as the cause of the deaths of countless children in the Middle East with damning allegations relating to his…

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RDI-Rwanda Rwiza : Happy Universal Children's Day

RDI-Rwanda Rwiza : Happy Universal Children’s Day

Kwizihiza Umunsi Mukuru Mpuzamahanga w’Abana bato 20/11/2014: Twishyire hamwe twizihize umunsi mukuru mpuzamahanga w’abana bato, bizatuma iyi si ihinduka nziza, nabo ibabere nziza.

                      Happy Universal Children’s Day 20/11/2014: Let’s join hands on Universal Children’s Day, To make this world a safer place for the little ones!