Safeguarding Young Runaway Sudanese People Project

							Safeguarding Young Runaway
  Sudanese People Project

         Georgette Hala Roro
           Youth Outreach Worker
    Sudan Women’s Association & Voluntary
              Action Camden
                   The Project
• How the Project came about?
• Aims and objectives:
 Raise awareness
 Increase understanding
 Inform the work of local statutory agencies
 Building social cohesion
 Enabling young people’s to be heard
 Providing opportunity for dialogue on neutral grounds for
  both parents and young people
 Challenging stereo-types of the Sudanese communities
       The Steering Group
• Composition
• Why needed a SG?
Direction
Support
Resource
Better access to community groups
           Challenges:
Tribal challenges
Community mindset
Illiteracy
Timescale
    What I have done so far?
Data collection
Identify and recruiting young Sudanese
 and parents to the sessions
Questionnaire & flier
Informal and formal interviews
Outreach work
  What I am hoping to achieve?
 Coordinate sessions
 Enabling young Sudanese young and older
  generation to influence and participate in the
  development of culturally sensitive, responsive
  and accessible local services in the future for
  those who ‘run away’
 Contribute to Community Partnership Project at
  a strategic and policy level.
 To input into a final report.