helping the poor [Archive]

gaenor

28-09-2005, 15:43

can you help youngsters set up businesses? don't direct me to the wales co-operative, wda, prince's trust or any other training organisation that currently exists. i want to meet enthusiastic individuals willing to use their skills in deprived communities. no funding available from me personally but if you can help my prisoners and offenders we are not short of ideas and funding may be accessible. are you a college student waiting to prove yourself, a retired person with time to spare for the excluded or privileged enough to be looking for a change of career? if you can help in any way there is no shortage of subjects to interest you. their future may depend on you.

gaenor

30-09-2005, 13:28

Can you give us any more information?

i specialise in poverty and social exclusion. i advised in 1995 that the justice system wasn't working. my prisoners were not given the help they needed. in 1999 i submitted 7 projects for objective one funding. not one was even looked at. in 2000 the south wales argus printed my letter criticising regeneration projects. i was promptly disowned by the voluntary sector. this year the voluntary sector, council and assembly government approved a code of conduct that was supposed to ban me from atternding public meetings in a communities first area. i know what i'm talking about it's just that certain people would prefer i didn't say anything at all. the kids i was helping in 1995 are now 15 and getting asbos for hanging around the streets. we've decided ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. i know all the government policies that were supposed to help deprived communities but didn't, eg in 1999 i warned that sure-start would not work. they have just announced that after £1 billion has been wasted "sure-start did not work". i don't want any more money wasted or the kids lives wasted. i'd like to get a team willing to make their dreams come true. there'll be ups and downs, good days and bad days but a sense of humour is essential. i just hope that i can motivate someone enough to help the poor instead of patronising them and passing them to a charity. they don't want your charity they want a job. whatever your personal talent we need to know it to match it to a business idea, you can advise on all sorts of things. it makes your knowledge worth having when you can see it help someone else.