We kicked off today's session with introductions to Khadija. Khadija also runs her own anti-knife crime campaign, U.N.I.T.Y (Understanding Negative Issues Towards Youths).
Khadija told us a bit about her and her campaign.
- She was part of Brent Youth Parliament
- She writes updates about her campaign for The Brent and Kilburn Times every 5 months
- She wants to run workshops to young people about her campaign, this is her next step
- Her campaign is very successful and she has a lot of followers on her Facebook
Her campaign:
- U.N.I.T.Y is her campaign name
- U.N.I.T.Y is a social networking campaign to make a change against knife crime
Khadija had a few questions for us to find out a bit about our campaign and how she can help us alongside how we can help her.
We asked Khadija a few questions back:
What made you do your campaign?
I am passionate about making change and knife crime is something that I feel strongly about.
Who supported you?
Nobody to start off with, it was all me. I was determined to make a difference and carry on running a campaign that I am passionate about.
We discussed with Khadija what we can both do to help one another:
- Khadija will take our poster along with her to some of her meetings and promote us on her campaign page.
- We will work together and support each other's campaigns - two campaigns about the same focus are even more powerful.
- We will let Khadija sit in on some of our workshops so that she can get some ideas for her workshops.
We worked on preparing for our workshop run through. We put a PowerPoint presentation together of stab wounds to shock our audience about some of the consequences of being involved with knife crime and how much damage it can do. We then had a run through of our workshop and got feedback on how we did.
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