I've been a youth worker now for many years. More than 90 per cent of my youth work has been generic youth work and I value it enormously.
So I find it interesting to see how I am increasingly perceived as someone who is only connected with Muslim youth work and how difficult it is for many people to see beyond this aspect of my role. They should ask themselves why this is so.
It was not my original intention to establish a Muslim Youth Work Foundation (see the story on the far right of the following page). The first Muslim Youth Work conference, organised with support from Youth & Policy and The National Youth Agency almost a year ago now, was organised as a result of frustration that the lives of Muslim young people were responded to in policy and practice terms on the basis of national events, not their lives.
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