Chiara is Commonwealth Ambassador

Chiara Ruddy, Vice Captain of St Aloysius' College in Glasgow, has been selected to represent the city as a British Council Interaction Ambassador to the 2014 Commonwealth Games.  She will spend October 2010 at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Chiara was the only independent sector representative to make it through the rigorous selection process.  She says that as a pupil at a Jesuit school, she is hoping to turn this personal triumph into a real opportunity to learn and to benefit others.

The Interaction Ambassadors programme is being run by Glasgow City Council, British Council Scotland and British Council India.  Forty-two Glasgow schools put forward the 52 candidates whom they felt would best meet the British Council's selection criteria, by dint of their all-round commitment and sustained achievement across the range of school and community projects.  Chiara was among 12 ambassadors selected from this pool, after they had impressed at least two judges in the series of group challenges set by the British Council panel.  Judges on the day included members of the police, the British Council, the personnel and recruitment industry, as well as senior national and local government officials.

When Lord Coe visited Glasgow to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on behalf of London 2012, he was so taken with the Delhi Dozen that he invited them all to meet up with his own team in London to give the young ambassadors an exclusive insight into the challenges posed by such major international events.

Over the four years leading up to Glasgow's Commonwealth Games, Chiara and the other ambassadors will continue British Council training and will represent Glasgow in a wide variety of events and activities aimed at shaping policy and ensuring that the young people of Glasgow derive maximum benefit from the legacy of hosting the 2014 Games.


 Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games

 St Aloysius' College, Glasgow