Supporting Schools

Supporting Schools

The Schools Programme

October 2009 sees the launch of our schools programme offering one hour and one day workshops and a 30 hour accredited training course in diversity. Initial roll out will be in the Liverpool borough who have allocated a youth worker to the Foundation to help deliver our education programme.

We are particularly thankful to the Walker Family for their unique contribution to the project and we are continuing to work with The Ariel Trust and other local authorities to ensure we can offer this service to every school in Merseyside.

Educational visit to Auschwitz

In November, some of our Young Ambassadors will make an educational visit to Auschwitz in Poland. Described as the largest man made grave in human history, this site stands out as a horrific example of mankind’s inhumanity.

The notion of racial superiority promoted by the Nazis progressed from name calling and blaming to the mass murder of over six million Jews. The Nazi ideology extended to the extermination of the sick and disabled – including German children with learning difficulties. Gays, Gypsies and eastern Europeans were also considered to be inferior and not worthy of life. Millions of people were displaced, lost everything they owned, lost their sons, daughters, parents and friends. Some escaped the gas chambers because countries such as ours offered them asylum as they fled their homes looking for a safe place for their children.

Sadly the lessons of the Holocaust have still not been learned; ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Serbia, Rwanda and currently in Darfur, are a stain on humanity.

The fight for human rights continues. It is hoped that the Young Ambassadors will learn why it is important to fight for human rights for everyone and not take such rights for granted. We are particularly pleased that ‘Deaf and
Disabled Arts Northwest’ will be joining us in this project, organised in partnership with the Tackling Racism – promoting Diversity Youth Group based at New Heys High School.

The group will be accompanied by a film crew from ITV who will make a short documentary film about the project.