"MY FIRST EVER HILL
WALK WAS ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING! MY BOOTS DIDN'T FIT, I GOT BLISTERS, AND DIDN'T KNOW IF I WAS HOT OR COLD"
Young Volunteer Award
Rehna was one of the recipients of the BMC Young Volunteer Award, alongside Lewis Perrin Williams, which recognises those young people who have made a significant voluntary contribution to the BMC and its commitment to supporting participation in climbing, hill walking and mountaineering.
Rehna has been a member of the Equity Steering Group for the past few years and has helped out in organising the BMC Equity Symposium in 2019, engaging ethnic minority groups in East Manchester to attend. She has given her input on the BMC ethnic diversity strategy as well as delivered a webinar on youth engagement through her work with the Lindley Educational Trust. She is a real asset in encouraging ethnically diverse young women to experience the outdoors and engages well with everyone she meets.
people who look like you, from the same background, same socio-economic status, same language, who eat the same food, that role modelling and inspiration is there. Nothing happens overnight. It has taken nearly seven years, working with community members, the local mosque, the police, the local authority. It has taken a lot of work, a lot of partnership. But once it becomes embedded, you're on to a winner. People become leaders within their community.
WHY DO YOU HATE THE TERM BAME?
The word is helping to address issues and really important conversations that need to be had. So at the moment, I'm gritting my teeth and bearing it. But even within our South Asian community we have our own differences: Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indians…there are so many different people in different groups. So how can you put everyone from different minority groups in one category?! I think it's lazy.
WHAT DOES WALKING MEAN TO YOU? The world.
Finding Our Way podcast champions diverse outdoor voices and is proudly sponsored by Berghaus.
LISTEN: To the full episode at
www.thebmc.co.uk/finding-our-way-podcast-rehna-yaseen
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