Manawer now speaks out regularly about mental health and hopes
Manawer says he said it in response to the many racial profiling
Here's Manawer performing it in front of the judges and a live audience.
British-Muslim mental health activist Hussain Manawer won a trip aboard a commercial spacecraft.
Thailand he said,“My name is Hussain Manawer, and I am not a terrorist.”.
Manawer says he said it in response to the many racial profiling
incidences he has experienced.
I only wanted to enter this competition to be
taken more seriously with my work," says Manawer.
Since winning the contest, Manawer, 26, has been giving talks to raise awareness on the subject.
Manawer now speaks out regularly about mental health and hopes
his trip to space will allow him more opportunities to bring it up.
And after a poem he wrote won him a space flight, he received widespread attention when during a speech in
Thailand he said,“My name is Hussain Manawer, and I am not a terrorist.”.