About us

The purpose of the organisation is;

Provide a platform with safe and creative atmosphere where local children can gain news skills on creative writing and journalism, and keep away from nuisance, anti social activities. Adult unemployed and elderly people with little or no education to learn IT skills/ graphic designing to enhance their employability.

For women and mother’s we provide training on Computer Technology, living healthy life style as it become one of the major issues in the community. Most women are the main carer of the family who mainly look after the children and responsible for their day to day needs. Providing skills for local women to take part in local life, and their families to enable and become more independent.

We work and deliver the project to the local community in their own language, it breaks a language barrier for them to come and learn.

ACTIVITIES WHICH ARE INCLUDED;

Sessions with young people where they learn creative writing and newspaper production skills including IT skills and produce actual newspaper.
For adult and unemployed people basic computing and working with specific software’s included Microsoft Words, Illustrator, Photoshop which make them able to do graphic designing and typing in their mother language.
Session with women; basic IT skills including operating computers, visiting internet, doing online forms, shopping, gathering information, making application. Also learn on healthy life style, healthy cooking and diet food.
Women’s only exercise class
Healthy cooking session
Conference/group meeting on different issues
Activities for whole family.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE’S

The aim of the Young News is to publish news papers involving directly its beneficiaries during the process through workshops and seminar. All news papers published by the Young News targets a specific section of the local community. The aim is also to provide a continues support to the beneficiaries by:

Creating an opportunity for young people to gain training and workshop experience on journalism, creative writing, design and lay out news paper, IT skills and all other aspect of newspaper production.
Engaging young people in a creative environment and therefore keeping them out of the street, away from nuisance, vandalism and most importantly from drugs.
Engaging young people in a creative environment and therefore keeping them out of the street, away from nuisance, vandalism and most importantly from drugs.
Providing support to the participants in expanding the horizon of knowledge and help to be up to date with latest information and development
Increasing the practice of reading and writing in an innovative way outside school
Providing basic computer skills to local adult community
Involve mothers into activities and educate them with more knowledge on health and healthy eating at home
Promoting and encouraging the notion of volunteering
Increase the young people’s participation in ‘important matters’ -where they will have to take decisions in a practical problem situation through editing, managing and supervising the publication of News Paper.
Supporting young people to build confidence by creating opportunities for publishing new writing.
Providing a unique service in Tower Hamlets, which would have been otherwise difficult to access by the user groups.
Working mainly with the disadvantage groups in the community who would normally be excluded from such initiatives.
Opening up a new area of career for those groups who would not normally choose a similar occupation.
Actually creating jobs (journalist on a free lance basis, to be recruited through training).