Two Bangladeshis win Queens Young Leaders Award

Two Bangladeshi youths will receive Queens Young Leaders Award 2017 with fifty other young people from Commonwealth countries for their contributions to the development of human life on June 29 at Buckingham Palace in London.

UK Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 17 June 2017, 08:07 AM
Updated : 17 June 2017, 08:25 AM

Among the awardees, Sajid Iqbal, 25, will be honoured for his contribution towards the usage of renewable energy in the commercial and household environments.

On the other hand, Rahat Hossain, 26, will be awarded for improving the emergency and disaster relief service system with training and technology.

Her Majesty the Queen herself will hand over the awards to these two young entrepreneurs in a ceremony.

The awardees were selected from thousands of young people from Commonwealth countries.

Sajjad Iqbal and Rahat Hossain will participate in a networking workshop with the other winners. The workshop has been designed to help them contribute to their work in a larger scale.

Before receiving their Queen’s Young Leaders Award at Buckingham Palace, the winners will visit 10 Downing Street, as well as take part in master classes at the BBC World Service and the UK headquarters of Facebook.

They will also meet the Commonwealth Secretary-General, participate in workshops at the University of Cambridge, meet senior executives from some of the UK’s leading organisations and visit projects that are changing the lives of vulnerable people in the UK. The program will conclude with the award ceremony The next year’s submission process will start on the same day.

The Queens Young Leaders Awards, instituted in 2014 for the 18 to 29 year olds, will be given for the last time in 2018, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's ascension.