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REFUGEE DIVERSITY
FASHION SHOW
By Angela Wathoni
The event will take place on Saturday 23 June
2018 at Nottingham Trent University and it is
being organised by Fearless Youth Association
in conjunction with other sponsors.
seekers in the planning, organising and
implementing this one-day event which will
entail a diversity fashion show by bringing
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We will engage some refugees and asylum
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We have confirmed promises from Nottingham
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celebrating friendship and life in Nottingham.
councillors and community leaders. FYA also
focuses on new arrivals and local groups from
deprived areas and who often live in council
properties. As with our previous events and
work, Fearless Youth Association will build on
partnerships with local organisations to make
young people feel safer, proactive, capable
of making a difference and standing up
The aim of the Fearless Youth Association (FYA) for their views while tackling negative and
project is to improve relationships among extremist views and attitudes. Our partners
young people from different ethnic and faith also stated that they will continue working
backgrounds around Nottingham. It will also with us and will have hands on engagement
support them in being active and visible in bringing in this project.
groups and communities together, be creative,
discuss issues and organise and implement events
and activities, including online engagement.
Empowering the young people to take up roles
in active lifestyles, training to gain confidence
and knowledge in decision making and
It will help build friendships, trust and links helping them become integral part of their
among young people with similar interests neighbourhoods will help improve their local
irrespective of their differences in background, neighbourhoods and create positive attitudes
faith and attitudes, a thing that would and views of living within Nottingham. It will
otherwise not happen left to themselves. This reduce a sense of “abandoned youths”
will make the local area and neighbourhood which is a view some of us felt when we set
safer and friendlier by making the young up this group. Overall, this will have a long-
people more active and focused while making term impact in the activities and role of the
the project sustainable through skills attained, young people involved in the project and the
music and online contents produced and community as a whole seeing what we as
growth in interests and investment in music and youths can do.
entertainment.
See page 25 for more details