Friend wins National Diversity Award
Rachel Jury, from Bournemouth Meeting, has won the National Diversity Award ‘Positive Role Model for Disability’ 2018
An attender at Bournemouth Meeting has won the National Diversity Award ‘Positive Role Model for Disability’ 2018 for her campaign work around stomas.
Rachel Jury was awarded the prize at the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral on 14 September for her blog raising stoma awareness, particular of urostomies.
Stomas are surgical openings on the abdomen created to divert the flow of faeces and/or urine.
Rachel Jury told the Friend: ‘I am absolutely honoured, shocked and extremely grateful to have won.’ She said the awards ceremony included ‘many other amazing individuals and communities celebrating diversity and inclusion.’
The thirty-one-year-old, born in Brigend in Wales, has suffered from chronic illness since she was diagnosed with a rare disease called Pure Autonomic Failure, where the nerves to her bladder and bowel failed to function.
