ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The
Working Men Project would like to thank everyone involved in the production
and putting together of this website.
Special
thanks goes to the following individuals who made an outstanding contribution
towards the development of the site:
Raul,
Sergi, Jozef, Cristobal, Laurent, James and Gustavo, who participated in
the original working group of service users (male sex workers)that drew
together the ideas and the concept of the website design during Oct-Dec
2001.
Roy
Perestrelo, from the St Mary's IM&T department, who provided training
on the use of Macromedia's Dreamweaver software to the members of the above
group, during the same time period.
Sergi
(member of the original group) who designed the basic page frame (the blue
border and flashmovie animate man - the WMP logo).
Extra
special thanks goes to Andre and Rudolf, who spent the best part of Christmas
2001 actually designing the site. Rudolf provided the technical aspects,
while Andre directed with the artistic layout and building on the design
aspects of the site.
Particular
thanks goes to Miriam Rainsford, who assisted with the technical aspects
of getting the site up and running and hosted with UK Servers, in February
2002. Miriam also volunteered weekly at the WMP providing the regular updates
to the news section and providing IT support for the management of the site,
during the first six months of it's operation.
Our
thanks also goes to the European Network Male
Prostitution, as some of their Northern European regional funding helped
pay for development of the site, maintenance and for providing gratuity
payments to some of the volunteers supporting the project.
This
all culminated in October 2002, when the site was shorted as a contender
in the Health Service Journal Management Awards, under the category 'Joint
Working to Improve Health Inequalities', highlight by the judges because
of its use of service users in the development. Following a presentation
in October to the judging panel, Andre Erasmus and Senior Nurse Practitioner/Manager
Justin Gaffney were invited to attend the Awards Dinner, in the presence
of the Prime Minister Tony Blair MP, on the 1st November 2002.
Pictured
here, you can see Andre and Justin accepting the award on behalf of the
team.
So,
to you all, for your help, support and continued contribution - THANK YOU!
