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Manifesto

Candidate for the position of North, West & Hebrides Depute President (West)

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Nicolas Kowalczuk

Nicolás Agustín Kowalczuk

What WE will achieve:

As all the students, HISA personnel, Lecturer’s, External Staff, and the community is aware that I am aiming to go person by person to ask:

“What problems do you see in the UHI Fort William?”.

I invite you to think of this pledge as a guidance and not about a specific thick boxes of a To-Do-List, after all, we need to hear from you to improve.

  • Guarantee a safe place to be heard.
  • Guarantee transparency a blunt honestly.
  • Regular check and follow up within the community.
  • To be a bridge between you and your goal.
  • Improve our Sport Club and the UHI Facilities.
  • Improve the service offer from the UHI to the student, lecturers, and broad staff.
  • Approach/Find problems and create solutions.

Across the community I have gathered information of areas of improvement’s and one of them was the lack of external facilities, other’s problems where the lack of resources for their sport club, other’s where the lack of sport clubs offers and varieties.

If I did a proper reading, a good approach will be to have a multisport indoor court and use it for workshops, activities, or events, for example:

If the cycling club cannot go to cycle on the mountain, they need to be fit for the task.

If the people would like to have Basketball, or Football, or Handball sport club, we need a multisport space.

Would be beneficial for the environment and our personal economies and development if we could have a workshop to fix our bikes, paddleboard, kayak and so on.

And NO, we are NOT getting the Chelsea Football Stadium. 

What I will bring to the role:

  • Resources.
  • Active Listener.
  • Solutions.
  • Transparency.
  • All the people into the negotiating table.
  • I am a teacher of Physical Education and student at the same time, so I can understand why you opinion is valuable and where you want to go and be emphatic between both sides, the Lecturer’s side, and the student’s side (as one example).
  • I am skilled with my hands, and I lived all my life fixing things (I grew in an environment where we need to be fixing anything by myself) this is to give the idea that I can think out-side of the box and an efficient person to get the maximal amount of benefit from each single thing.
  • As I did with the bike rack at the student accommodation, I bought that and let that to be at disposition of other students, because I know how hard can be to get each single piece of equipment and with my disability, I am on an advantage compared to other students and I share it because is beneficial for everyone.

Why should you vote for me?

  • Because I can be a positive agent for the exchange that you need.
  • Because as my grandfather taught me: “you must live your life in a way that you do not must be looking back to see what you have done”.
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