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This project successfully funded on 28th July 2023, you can still support them with a donation.
Babylon Migrants Project
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
First target reached!
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Aim
With your support, we can continue to empower young people and help them gain new creative skills, make friends, and improve their English.
Our founder
Ali Ghaderi is a London-based refugee, actor, activist and facilitator from Iran. In the past five years since being in the UK, Ali has won multiple awards for his activism and work with young people. Babylon was created because Ali realised that few other organisations in the UK developed and were led by those with experienced backgrounds from displacement. This meant that many refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants in similar situations had difficulties making new connections, facing isolation, finding a community, learning new skills, rebuilding their confidence and having role models from their shared backgrounds.
Who we are?
Babylon Project is where creativity meets community-building. Our goal is to encourage personal development, teamwork, and self-expression in young people from refugee, asylum seeking and migrant backgrounds, through creative courses and activities.
What do we do?
We provide a variety of sessions taught by skilled facilitators who are passionate about helping young people to achieve their full potential, and supporting their explorations in forms such as art, theatre, storytelling, film-making and photography. Together, let's create a more welcoming and creative community, one workshop at a time.
Why is this important?
Our activities aim to address the disadvantage and exclusion experienced by refugees and asylum seekers living in the UK, boosting young people’s confidence and providing them with the necessary tools to express themselves.
Our activities aim to address the disadvantage and exclusion experienced by refugees and asylum seekers living in the UK, boosting young people’s confidence and providing them with the necessary tools to express themselves.
What’s the typical asylum seeking experience?
- Isolation
- No permission to work
- No access to public funds
- Mental health
- Practising English
- Feel of belonging and community
- Confidence
- Learning new skills
How to make this a more productive experience?
Two-thirds, almost 110,000 people, had been waiting over six months for a decision on their asylum case / within those six months, their time could be spent much more productively, preparing them for life here in the UK instead of putting them on the shelf, isolated and unable to interact with others, build relationships and increase their chances of a positive introduction to society.
How you can help us?
We run an extensive range of different workshops and your funding will help us develop and improve our offering, inviting more people to take part and running them more regularly.
"I had a lot of fun and made new friends I like the fact that we worked together as a team"
"Since I joined Babylon I have improved my English and my confidence and now I feel comfortable to speak in front of people in big number. I have made a new friend and now he is my close friends"
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made