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Hope in Haringey reopens for the new academic year, launches Haringey African Schools Project
The local charity which delivered more than 7,000 face to face sessions for young people last year has returned from the summer break ready to enrich the lives of young people once more.
Working with young people from 27 of the borough’s local schools, Hope in Haringey delivers a range of workshops, seminars, and sessions in line with its counselling, employability mentoring, diversionary youth sports and community police engagement programmes.
The 23/24 academic year will see these programmes once again operating in full swing. Since reopening on September 4th, Hope in Haringey have onboarded new counsellors, trained new mentors and dates for their police engagement and diversionary sport sessions are already in the calendar.
It means the charity is on course to match its 7,000 delivered sessions last year and with plans to reach more schools in the west of Haringey, hopes to better last year’s record.
One of the ways HiH looks to better last year’s effort is through the launching of a collaborative international project that connects Haringey with the African continent.
Titled the Haringey African Schools Partnership, “HASP” will launch at the House of Commons on September 18th. The project’s purpose is to connect young women and girls in the borough with their peers in and Africa to collaborate and share resources. The hope is that by collaborating, all groups will tackle challenges facing them today.
At the time of writing, schools in five countries have joined the project from including Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Somalia. These partner schools have since been paired with students from Harris Academy Tottenham, Park View, Mulberry Woodside, and Haringey Sixth Form College.
This early, pre-launch success has seen charitable partners Sister System and the Turing Trust also commit to the project. To date, Sister System have provided training for 18 of the youth advisory board members whilst the Turing Trust have donated computers to schools in Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone.
Speaking on Hope in Haringey’s grand plans for the upcoming academic year, Hope in Haringey Director Rev. John Wood MBE. said “Hope in Haringey remains committed to sharing its social capital amongst the young people of Haringey to enrich their life opportunities. We are looking forward to this new year and the fantastic work ethic of the entire team shows we are ready to make the ambitious dreams of Haringey’s young people a reality.”
To help sponsor Hope in Haringey’s work with young people, visit www.hopeinharingey.com/donate
