Sunday 29 January 2017

Day 4 in Amsterdam

Visited the city hall:
We were informed that the highest population of youth crime is in Amsterdam

The job of the workers at city hall is to take this information about violence in south east and think of ways to address it and tackle how these problems have affected the community and any people that have been directly affected, seeing how they can change negative impacts

There are no youth centres, only community centres due to cuts in funding - this has caused tension between different generations of people. The general approach is that theres no diversification 

It was mentioned that everyone is scared to directly name the community that is causing the most problem in society e.g. africans are majorly involved in crime more then the duetsch - this is a generalised focus

Otmar spoke about the importance of teaching African heritage to our young people

We also had a big discussion about the duetsch aims for the programme and the London participants aims and what the actual learning objective is

The duestch seemed to think that the focus is just about best practice in youth work and the young people involved just happen to be 98% black

Whereas the London groups focus was based on the AFRICAN diaspora youth in both countries

The London group are concerned about how the research will conclude and if it will address what we initially set out to learn

Everyone wants to know where do we go from here?

It seems as though the main focus of the group as a whole is that we are researching diaspora youth 

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