Back from the Edge was a 3 year project to increase awareness of and support for the fight against global poverty amongst young people disaffected with the formal education system.
Funded through the Development Awareness Fund (DAF), the project aimed to support educational practitioners to better engage disenfranchised young people in local, national and global issues.
In this way we hoped to help vulnerable young people to be empowered, active, positive members of their community.
The main partners were Kingsmead School and Baby People.
The project experimented with lots of different approaches, was the initial stimulus for working through rap and grafitti that eventually grew to become the Money Power Respect project, and produced a resource of activities for Aim Awards accreditation. This resource in the form of an off-the-shelf workbook that practitioners at Kingsmead can use with their pupils, use global citizenship as the context for achieving awards in Understanding Aspects of Citizenship and Understanding Diversity in Society.
Overall the project was a great success. Here are some comments from those involved:
From practitioners:
“I have increased my own learning and thus been able to pass on more to the young people I work with”
“Staff felt enlightened and empowered and eager to learn more”
From young people involved in using hip hop to explore wider global issues:
“I have learnt to be friendly to people that deserve you to be friendly with and not to discriminate against other people that are different to me and not to judge them by the way that they look. I learnt how to write lyrics and more about more music…I’m actually doing something really good now”.
“I now feel more confident within myself and what I do from meeting new people and gaining new skills. I have learned more about the world and current affairs as well as been given opportunities to do something different that I really enjoy”.
“I gained a further sense of understanding of music and global issues as well as understanding the views of different people”.
Funded through the Development Awareness Fund (DAF), the project aimed to support educational practitioners to better engage disenfranchised young people in local, national and global issues.
In this way we hoped to help vulnerable young people to be empowered, active, positive members of their community.
The main partners were Kingsmead School and Baby People.
The project experimented with lots of different approaches, was the initial stimulus for working through rap and grafitti that eventually grew to become the Money Power Respect project, and produced a resource of activities for Aim Awards accreditation. This resource in the form of an off-the-shelf workbook that practitioners at Kingsmead can use with their pupils, use global citizenship as the context for achieving awards in Understanding Aspects of Citizenship and Understanding Diversity in Society.
Overall the project was a great success. Here are some comments from those involved:
From practitioners:
“I have increased my own learning and thus been able to pass on more to the young people I work with”
“Staff felt enlightened and empowered and eager to learn more”
From young people involved in using hip hop to explore wider global issues:
“I have learnt to be friendly to people that deserve you to be friendly with and not to discriminate against other people that are different to me and not to judge them by the way that they look. I learnt how to write lyrics and more about more music…I’m actually doing something really good now”.
“I now feel more confident within myself and what I do from meeting new people and gaining new skills. I have learned more about the world and current affairs as well as been given opportunities to do something different that I really enjoy”.
“I gained a further sense of understanding of music and global issues as well as understanding the views of different people”.