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Aim 4: Promoting Diversity
by eystwales
PROMOTING DIVERSITY, SAFETY & WELCOME
Syrian Resettlement Programme Swansea, Carmarthenshire & Powys
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During 2019 we continued to support families resettled in Wales via the Home Office’s Resettlement Programmes in the 3 local authority areas of Swansea, Carmarthenshrie & Powys. Families were positively welcomed and supported by our respective teams in each area working closely with the Local Authorities in each area including Housing providers, Schools, Colleges, Health services and Employability services. Individually, there were many success stories including achievements in education and employment, as well as sporting successes! From 2020, the programme will be known officially as the Global Refugee Resettlement Programmes, welcoming and resettling refugees from all corner of the world.
With a small grant from Cardiff Council, over the summer of 2019 we employed 2 local young BME people for 3 months to become Windrush Ambassadors – interviewing, filming and photographing Windrush elders in their local communities and putting together a mobile pop up exhibition, for use in schools, colleges and community settings across Cardiff. The project interviewed 8 Windrush elders, and produced a film, photos and a mobile pop up exhibition. The completed film entitled ‘Milk and Honey’ can be seen here:
Don’t Hate Educate
Don’t Hate Educate is a brand new project designed to tackle the increase in racist attitudes towards ethnic and religious minorities in Wales. It builds on the previous successes of the Think Project and Resilience Project using a similar open dialogue and contact theory-based approach to breaking down barriers and misconceptions about denigrated groups including Muslims, migrants, asylum-seekers and gypsy travellers. It launched in October 2019, and is funded for 18 months, by Welsh Government through their Hate Crime Minority Community Fund. Its first phase is a Train the Trainer phase, training volunteers with lived experience of discrimination, who will then support the delivery of awareness workshops in Schools in Swansea, Carmarthenshire, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Powys during 2020. Watch this space!!!
