The Future Leaders programme, which is backed by the mayor’s Shared Endeavour Fund, works with young people aged 16 to 18 in weekly sessions over a 12-month period.
Faheem Khan, the founder, said that “through those weekly sessions we educate young people about the different types of hate and intolerance that exist in our community, we engage them to feel a deep sense of civic responsibility to want to counter that, and we empower them to be advocates for community cohesion, equality and diversity”.
Faheem Khan, the founder, said that “through those weekly sessions we educate young people about the different types of hate and intolerance that exist in our community, we engage them to feel a deep sense of civic responsibility to want to counter that, and we empower them to be advocates for community cohesion, equality and diversity”.
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00:00 So we work with young people age 16 to 18 across a year-long leadership program where
00:04 we have weekly sessions.
00:05 And through these weekly sessions, we educate young people about the different types of
00:09 hate and intolerance that exist in our community.
00:12 We engage them to feel a deep sense of civic responsibility to want to counter that, and
00:16 we empower them to be advocates for community cohesion, equality, and diversity.
00:20 Currently our focus is on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
00:24 And just last night we had a session where we connected via Zoom with an Israeli that
00:28 lives 30 minutes from the Gaza border and a Palestinian who lives in the West Bank.
00:33 And our young people heard first-hand accounts from these people who live in the region about
00:39 what the impact has been for them and what we can do on this side of the world to help
00:43 them and to achieve peace.