“Giving Voice To The Voiceless”

Afrikan and Diaspora Institute (AaDI)

Consultative Paper No.001/2008/D1:

 “OUR ROLE IN THE 21^st CENTURY.”

Full Report

Britain’s grassroots self-help groups enter another phase in their development by forming    ‘self-help partnerships’ for mutual support.

Launched in July 2008, a number of groups agreed to become Self-Help Partners, using ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ to regulate their administrative procedures and governance. London, England was the launch pad. The launch was the combination of two years working with groups and individuals, assessing the most durable and effective model likely to produce lasting and effective working structures to satisfy current needs in the community.

These ‘up-graded’ self-help initiatives are liken to those introduced by early immigrants, most of whom were people of African ancestral backgrounds, coming mostly from the Caribbean to support Britain in mending her war-torn economy, during the 1950s-1980s.

Some examples of  those successful initiatives are  community credit unions; Britain’s modern carnival movement, generated from Notting Hill in West London across the nation;  the British civil rights and anti-racist movement, culminating in several race, community relations and human rights laws placed on Britain’s Statute Book; the mobile disco [sound systems] movement; the supplementary school movement; voluntary and community based information and  hostel projects, for homeless children and young people. [Read full story here]

‘Partnerships

At the Grassroots’

“Bobbling Spirits of a Global African Renaissance”

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London Schools & the Black Child

“We need to mobilise our young people to put themselves forward as members of students councils and youth parliaments where their voices can be heard.”

“There is a clear connection between exclusion, delinquency, detention, crime, imprisonment and un-employability - that is why supporters of the planned Conference are seeking the abolition of a wasteful, destructive and discriminatory system.”

“Discrimination persists in that Black pupils are three times more likely to be excluded than others, children in care eight times and special educational needs statemented pupils three to four times. A Black child in care with a statement of special educational needs is between 72 and 96 times more likely to be excluded than others! Is this not blatantly discriminatory?” [Read full story here]

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