creditsCARIBBEAN - FUTURE ASPIRATIONS
What youth should be
aiming for
Simba Project, based in Woolwich, demonstrating traditional arts and crafts at Deptford Community Radio Project's Cultural Awareness Day in July 1999, at the Lewisham Irish Comunity Centre, Catford.
Community contacts: Harry Powell, Lewisham Way Youth and Community Centre, 138 Lewisham Way, New Cross SE14.
Roy Pinder, Chair, Pan African Caribbean Community Organisation, 66 Charlton Church Lane, Charlton, London SE7.
Mrs Malcolm, from the Caribbean and resident in London, summarises what she believes the youth should be aiming for.
If you don’t know where you’re coming from, then you don’t know where you’re going.
Mrs Malcolm’s future aspirations:
"I think what they should aim to achieve in the future is a good standard of education, a good standard of living and the ability to put themselves in the position where they can offer themselves to the community, to prove their worth and prove what they can do, to prove that they can achieve something and give something back to the community for what they have received.
If you don’t know where you’re coming from, then you don’t where you’re going.
You’ve got to have the understanding and that something to hold onto, because if you've got nothing to hold onto, then you’re going to fall.
For black people, their main routes are in Africa.
I think they should take pride in themselves for what they have achieved so far, pride in knowing that their fore-parents were forcefully taken from their country, and now hundreds of years on, they have achieved a lot, getting into Parliament, medicine, all the organisations and gaining top positions. Their priority should be to continue to progress."
Mrs Malcolm - What the youth should achieve for the future (Real Audio)