Social housing campaigner Kwajo has been featured in The Big Issue’s list of top 100 Changemakers for his work highlighting appalling living conditions of some housing tenants in the UK.
He has also been awarded the prestigious Sheila McKechnie Young Campaigner Award for his tireless work exposing the squalid conditions that some social housing tenants endure across Britain.
He has used social media to share videos of tenants who live in inhumane homes with disrepair, damp, mould, mice and broken toilets.
Many have gone viral, shaming landlords into carrying out urgently needed repairs or prompting authorities to move to the family to new accommodation.
The activist, in his early 20s, began campaigning after living in a flat on an estate in Mitcham, South London, that was in severe disrepair, impacting the health of his seriously ill father.
As a result of his campaign, the landlord undertook over 600 repairs on the estate including 24 new kitchens and bathrooms.
His campaigning has come to the attention of senior politicians and he has met Secretary of State Michael Gove and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. TV’s Dragon’s Den star Steven Bartlett is among donors supporting his work.