How the Power of Light Can Change Lives
We welcome back One Young World stalwart Oscar Anderson MBE to discuss the latest developments with Project Oscar.
Speakers
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Toyin SarakiToyin Saraki
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Patty O'HayerGlobal Head of External Affairs, ReckittPatty O'Hayer
Global Head of External Affairs, Reckitt
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Oscar Anderson MBEOne Young World Ambassador and Disability Rights ActivistOscar Anderson MBE
One Young World Ambassador and Disability Rights Activist
Project OscarFor the first 13 years of his life Oscar lived in Asia before returning to the UK in 2014. Educated in mainstream International Schools, Oscar attended his first One Young World Summit in Dublin 2014. Seeing Caroline Casey’s presentation opened a door for Oscar: “That’s what I want to do”, he said. “I want to speak out” Oscar made his own presentation in Bangkok the next year. Whereupon Kate said “Talking is good. Doing is all. Do something. Change something”. While at school, Oscar developed an idea and pitched it to Reckitt. He worked with Reckitt to develop material concerning neo-natal jaundice, how to recognise it, and what to do about it. Project Oscar launched in Vietnam in 2019 and has since impacted tens of thousands of families in rural areas, providing timely treatment, on the spot, to prevent damage to the nervous system in new-born babies due to jaundice. More recently Oscar has helped another One Young World delegate with his project in Zambia to provide wheelchairs for school students in Ndola