The Need

Sometimes devleopmoent education can seem a little dull, its not as cute as kittens and it can feel like we don't see change come quickly enough, but we believe that development education is vital if we are to see a fairer and more peaceful world for everyone.

As the world becomes smaller and the global economy and migration bring the peoples of the world closer together young people need to learn how to engage with others, to begin to recognise and understand the global issues which affect us all and also to discover their own voice within our local, national and international communities.

We believe that young people both now AND in the future have tremendous power to understand our changing world in new ways and to contribute their voice and creativity not only as future descision makers but as current citizens and leaders.

It works!

We have had a brilliant start, impacting over 2000 young people since November 2003, we estimate that we have spent over 15,000 hours with young people in three years. Our team has grown from two to five, our turnover has trippled. This year coming we are planning to tackle more issues and to improve our level of support to teachers and young people, enabling them to go on and make a difference as Global Citizens.

Don't take our word for it, after every session we run we try and take evaluation forms from students and teachers to improve on our work.

"We are lucky to live the life we live" - Student from Flight of Fashion Event

"I enjoyed being able to express the way I feel about what I learnt today" - Student, Islington Arts And Media School

"It was the best day of the year at school!" - Student, Sir John Cass Primary School

"Stunning! An excellent way of involving every student and enabling them to learn about the issues in a fun way. Really powerful, everything was top quality" - Teacher, St. Anne's Catholic School for Girls

"The best part of the day was seeing the students enjoy themselves and being made to think about these important issues" - Teachers, St. Edwards C of E School.

Mission

Innovative, creative, interactive, education events, engaging young people in justice issues through the arts. Raising awareness of human rights, childrens' rights, trade and poverty through workships in school and the youth sector. Training young people in youth work, project planning and overseas experience. Working in partnership with Paalam projects' orphanage and school in Sri Lanka and with Amptex & Rainbows Edge in Kenya.

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Great People

We have a great team of staff and volunteers who work incredibly hard to produce high quality engaging work in order to bring justice issues to young people in a way that they will understand and that enables them to make informed choices.

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Our Projects

We have some great projects, which are really worth supporting, if you would like to ear-mark money for a particular project please get in touch.

• Interschools Events
  • Flight of Fashion
  • BitterSweet
• Schools
  • Keystage 3 - 4
  • Keystage 2
• Realeyez
• Photography - How to tell a story
• Events-
  • We run installations and stalls at various events these really help to raise general awareness and can have a big impact - live8
• International

History

We want to build on our history, we have accomplished so much since 2002 and are enjoying growing and learning and delivering engaging sessions for young people both in the UK and abroad, challenging their perceptions and getting active on issues which are so important to us all.

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Get your hands dirty

So go on get in touch, read more about how to donate time, money and stuff, or just contact us and get involved we need you more than ever!