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Embracing
Tolerance Education
Programme
To
promote moderate and inclusive attitudes among young
people to encourage peaceful and constructive
coexistence.
Our
aims
developing
and
broadening young people’s skills and knowledge in order to
challenge stereotypes and combat prejudice
encouraging
reflection on extreme religious values and sources of
cultural bias.
raising
awareness
of young peoples’ rights in the face of racial and religious
prejudice
providing
a neutral forum for young people to safely express and share
opinions
facilitating
contact between different faiths and ethnic groups.
We
target vulnerable
11-18
year olds from some
of the most deprived and ethnically and religiously diverse
neighbourhoods that are noted for high incidence of youth
crime, bullying, intolerance and discrimination.
We
work in
schools,
youth
clubs and
Religious
Organisations across
greater London, in boroughs such as Hackney, Camden, Tower
Hamlets and Lambeth
Sessions
are
delivered over 2
workshops of 1-1 ½ hrs. They
interactive, participant-led and mediated rather than
taught, with young people encouraged to identify, appraise
and challenge beliefs which harden inter-faith, race and
community tensions within a safe environment.
Activities include
ice-breaker and brainstorming activities, role play,
multimedia resources, relevant current news stories, thought
provoking scenarios and images designed to get young people
to identify and explore their own pre-existing
stereotypes.
Feedback
is key to
our programme and the development of content. Attendance
sheets, feedback questionnaires and evaluation forms are all
used to record and analyse the extent to which young people
have benefited from the programme, as well as a way of
integrating their own ideas on how to make the programme
better.
Wider
Community action...we
also work within the wider
community and have set up links with the Metropolitan
police,
Deans
London and
Interlinkx
CIC to provide
sports and leisure activities to add fun to young people’s
lives in Hackney. The project aims to
reduce violent racially and religiously motivated crime on
the city streets.
Volunteering...
Our
programme is entirely volunteer-led, with a regular team of
dedicated young individuals with a passionate interest in
the idea of tolerance helping deliver sessions across
London.
We are
always looking for new volunteers, if you would like to
volunteer for Tolerance International UK and help make a
real difference to the stereotypes and opinions of young
people in a variety of different locations please
email our Programme Co-ordinator at uktolerance@toleranceinternational.org.uk
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