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Help us raise money to support young asylum seekers in Kent though English and Life Skills education, Mentoring and Advocacy.
KRAN is a registered charity that has been going for 17 years. When unaccompanied asylum seeking children arrive in Kent they usually stay in the county. We can never replace their families but we try to give them the help and advice that we would all want our own kids to receive if they had been forced to flee. Our aim is to support these incredible young people to lead happy and healthy lives within our communities and to put everything we can in place to help them achieve their ambitions.
We work in three main ways. First of all we have an education project that teaches English and Life Skills. Young people of 16 and 17 are often placed in independent living which means they have to look after themselves and we offer lessons in skills such as cooking, budgeting and basic numeracy. Our aim is to support young people to look after themselves well, and to work with local education providers to ensure them a place in statutory education as soon as possible. We also run a mentoring project which links young people up with volunteers in the community and an advocacy project to help them resolve any problems they might run into.
Recently we have found ourselves in the eye of a media storm as the debate around people arriving in dinghies in search of sanctuary has played out through increasingly toxic coverage. We want to turn this around and use the opportunity of all this attention to raise money to support the amazing young people that we work for. This is particularly important right now as the numbers of young people arriving are rising and our services are stretched. This money will help us expand our provision and ensure that we can work with as many young people as possible.
This project successfully funded on 28th August 2020