Empowering Young People in the Kakuma Camp
Rachel Rouncefield from Youth and Community Development in DMU’s Health and Life Science Faculty, has spent the past 18 months researching with a wide network of young people and organisations – investigating what makes successful co-creative work between adults and young people tick; whether it leads to community empowerment and how this kind of approach might benefit minority communities in particular.
Then, with the help of Bola Akinrolabu (Research Assistant) and some support funds from DMU for the research participants, the opportunity arose to run two research focus groups (virtually) with young people in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya (pictured). Rachel had heard about a particular project aimed at empowering young women at the camp, and had some help to engage with the young people and their supportive peers through a network member who had already been successful in gaining a scholarship from the camp to a Canadian university.
Read moreGlobal Sustainability Awards for film unveiled at DMU
De Montfort University recently hosted the 11th TVE Global Sustainability Film Awards Shortlist Announcement event. This was the first time the awards were brought on to campus at DMU, initiated by Dr Hiu Man Chan, pictured, Lecturer in Creative & Cultural Industries, in an attempt to engage the topic of United Nations SustainableDevelopment Goals with more students and staffs via the medium of film.
Professor Simon Oldroyd, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Sustainability) and Dean of Health and Life Sciences delivered a welcome address to the audience, followed by TVE chair Mei Sim Lai OBE DL’s introduction to Television for the Environment (TVE), a long standing charity campaigning for the environment.
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