The Mayor, Cllr Anna Mbachu
Council at the Annual General Meeting elected Councillor Anna Mbachu as Mayor on Thursday 21st May 2009.
Councillor Anna Mbachu has lived locally with her family for more than 21 years and was first elected in 2006 as Councillor for Grove Green Ward.
She entered politics to effect change and have an input in the way services are delivered. Contributing to the on-going work of creating further harmony and understanding within the borough is of high importance to Councillor Anna Mbachu.
Since her election in 2006, Councillor Anna Mbachu has held the following positions: Vice Chair of the Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Sub-Committee. She was also appointed as a member of the Health, Adults and Older Persons Scrutiny Sub Committee, Overview and Scrutiny Committee, the Social Services Complaints Panel, the Standards Committee and a Community Council Chair.
She has a BA (HONS), trained as a Registered Nurse in Mental Health, Dual Diagnosis and works as a nurse with the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team.
Councillor Anna Mbachu said on her election, “To become Mayor of this dynamic and incredibly diverse and cohesive borough is a wonderful opportunity. I look forward to meeting people from all backgrounds and walks of life. I am proud to be part of the ‘one community’ that is Waltham Forest.”
As Mayor, she is eager to meet with many of the children and young people of the borough and said: “We have some extremely talented, creative – and quite simply – good young people in the borough. All our children deserve the very best start in life.”
Councillor Anna Mbachu’s chosen charity is the Whipps Cross Maternity Unit’s ‘Big Push appeal’. The appeal is raising money for a state-of-the-art machine to monitor the heartbeats of babies in distress during labour, facilities for fathers and birth partners, bereavement rooms and a counselling service for when the pregnancy and birth don’t go according to plan.
The facilities for fathers and birth partners will ensure greater equality and inclusiveness for all as it will provide fathers with greater ability to participate in the birth process and a resting place for when birth occurs late in the night or at dawn.
While Mayor, Councillor Anna Mbachu hopes to assist the hospital’s Big Push project achieve it’s target of £350,000. She also intends to donate funds to the Whipps Cross Special Care Baby Unit.
The Mayor has a personal debt of gratitude that she would like to repay to the special care baby unit as one of her children benefited from the professional care offered by the unit at the most difficult of times.
Councillor Anna Mbachu’s acknowledged her late mother as constant source of inspiration for her. Her mother believed that you should work with people to achieve what they need and not for people as one may not fully understand what their needs are. She acknowledges that people should be treated as individuals and be respected for their individual differences.
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