Tuesday, March 11, 2008

'Hidden Voices'


Eighth workshop - February

By all accounts a big success - and thanks to Andrew Lake and especially the Dreamers Youth Group, Loughborough

The workshop was the launch of the ‘Hidden Voices’ publication, which endeavours to record the development of the ‘Dreamers’. Dreamers is a Leicestershire Youth Service project providing support and informal educational opportunities for young asylum seekers and refugees aged 13-25 years.

At the core of this publication are the personal reflections of youth worker Andrew Lake who established Dreamers in May 2002. For 4 years Andrew recorded his conversations with young asylum seekers in his professional diaries. Extracts from these recordings form the basis of much of this publication

The publication can be downloaded here, and a full workshop report will follow in due course