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Supporting the Havering community to rebuild and prosper coming out of the Coronavirus crisis.
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By Am Arising Community Interest Company
We need your help to buy laptops for Children 8-16 years in Havering; to Learn, Create, Collaborate and gain digital skills. Our FREE session provides opportunities to gain valuable skills for life!
Sorry this project was unsuccessful, we did not reach our fundraising goal.
We need help to continue to run our activities for children and young people aged 8-16 living in deprived areas of Havering. Pledging to our project will enable us to buy 15 laptops and other accessories needed to carry out our activities in order to cater for the most vulnerable and deprived in our communities during our face to face sessions. Currently, the library only has provision for 2 desktops designated for children which is highly insufficient for the library use. Having our equipment to work with means children and young people can always walk in and use our services for FREE. To curb the spread of Covid-19, Children coming into our session can no longer share equipment except from the same household. This will help us raise STEM awareness and build digital heroes whilst bridging the shortage of skills gap in the industry and empowering BAME communities.
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Why it's a great idea:
Our project brings communities together. Promote the use of the library- public space Provides Free STEAMlearning. We were one of the very few organisations supporting children during COVID-19 lockdown since March, in the way we do. Being a women-led organisation and a mother of 3 living in a BAME community that works with children and young people, having a support network for children is a priority. BAME communities are hit hardest by COVID-19 pandemic - from finances to health and education with little or no support. The children also have a fair share of this domino's effects of the recent crisis which sadly affects their mental health and further reflects on the way they behave. To properly support them, we provide a platform to engage children and young people in learning, playing, staying creative and collaborating (pro and post Covid-19). This provides not only a healthy distraction from the pandemic, It helps children deal with the negative effects of living in lockdown.
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With the rate of boredom increasing in children, leading to anxiety and sucide in extreme cases as we have seen. Our support network provides a safe haven for children and young people. We provided over 400 hours of uninterrupted learning targeted towards children and young people; over the 18 weeks period of living in lockdown with our online learning. As lockdown gradually eases, we will resume our face to face session at Harold Hill library.
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Supporting the Havering community to rebuild and prosper coming out of the Coronavirus crisis.
S.T.E.A.M Time - (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics). Did you know, we are the only STEM center in Greater London offering FREE STEM and digital learning with tutor support? Sessions are designed for Children 8 -16 years of age, especially from deprived communities, often underrepresented in the industry. Am Arising and partners are working closely to build valuable digital skills and provide the right support for children and young people to catch up with learning due to lost time caused by Covid-19 lockdown. Click the link to join our session - https://bit.ly/steamtime
How will the money be spent?Total £15,520
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VolunteerWe are a Community Interest Company providing Events, Education, Training and Workshops, for children aged 5 to 16 years of age based in the deprived areas of Greater London.
We address social impact and changes based within communities to enable vulnerable children especially BAME groups to engage them in activities.
Investing in communities with extra curricular activities for children, makes our world a safer place as it greatly reduces the number of children at risk of crime and violence.
It takes children and young people off the streets - gives children and young people something positive to become a part of. A project to be proud of that builds valuable skills in them.This promotes the community, boosts the economy and ensures we continue to build homegrown talents.
STEAM learning will reduce the shortage of skills gap the industry is currently faced with, which reduces the nation's GDP.
Providing activities that support BAME communities also means that proportion of BAME employees in the digital industry will be improved in the future.
We are proud to be one of the first ever STEAM clubs in Havering providing FREE services to children and young people. We shall continue to raise awareness of STEAM learning and its advantage to young people, highlighting the importance of starting STEAM learning at an early age.
We have been tried and tested for four years in supporting STEAM learning and utilizing public spaces such as the local Harold Hill library in our quest to make STEAM learning a norm.
So far, we provided over 400 hours of FREE learning in our online platform during the lockdown. This served as a support network which occupied children in the most confusing and unprecedented time of history. Children and young people were still able to socialise despite living in lockdown with the help of our online platform. Students engaged in daily learning, played, stayed creative and collaborated with peers forming a great bond in our secured and monitored platform.
As lockdown gradually eases, we will be returning to our library base offering small sized face to face sessions in accordance to social distancing guidelines.
To further ease the problems caused by the pandemic, we have added more services (Homework Zone - Maths and English ) to support the most vulnerable children who have been out of school for nearly six months due to the recent crisis to help them get to speed with learning.
Project Owner: Am Arising Community Interest Company The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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