Story Telling Project 'Ustaraabu Yetu; Our Culture'
Salford Community Education Support Centre (SCESC)Feb 2020- Apr 2021
Archives
Total copies: 1
This collections consists of:
Publicity material for the promotion of the project's reminisence sessions.
8 oral history interviews as collected by volunteers on the project.
An illustrated comic book as a project output.
4 photographs from the final event celebration.
A project evaluation.
A recorded feedback track following the interviews.
Title:
Story Telling Project 'Ustaraabu Yetu; Our Culture'
Date of work:
Feb 2020- Apr 2021
Reference number:
GB3228.97
Level of description:
Collection
Includes:
Custodial history:
The material was created and held by the Salford Community Education Support Centre during the delivery of the Storytelling Project until the time of donation.
Arrangement:
This collection is arranged into the following 5 series:Series GB3228.97/1 Publicity MaterialSeries GB3228.97/2 Oral History InterviewsSeries GB3228.97/3 Project OutputsSeries GB3228.97/4 Final Celebration EventSeries GB3228.97/5 Evaluation
Source:
Transfered directly from donor
Access restrictions:
Restrictions varyAccess to some records have varying restrictions and have been anonymised as requested by interviewees
Use restrictions:
Restricted
General notes:
Salford Community Education Support Centre (SCESC) is a non-profit organisation that seeks to promote social inclusion amongst refugees and asylum seekers in deprived areas of Salford and Greater Manchester. From 2020, SCESC have been working to support community integration by offering workshops, outreach programmes, conferences, and seminars.It was discovered through a few community consultations that African communities in Salford struggle with issues of stress, depression and trauma which lead to social isolation. To address these topics, in 2020, SCESC received a Heritage Fund grant to undertake the Story Telling Project 'Ustaraabu Yetu; Our Culture'. Through 5 reminiscence sessions and oral history interviews, the project sought to share the experiences of refugee and asylum seekers’ culture and history with the wider community in order to provide a deeper understanding of various cultures. It achieved this through discussing subjects covering childhood, family and cultural differences between participants' home countries and the UK.SCESC stated the following 3 goals for the project:1. Reduce, through the Story Telling Project, the isolation and loneliness of refugees and asylum seekers in Salford by giving them the opportunity to know and socialise with other community members.2. Help refugees and asylum seekers recover from their previous trauma and torment and learn to cope with memories of stress, trauma, depression, abuse and assault.3. Involve new people from the Salford community of refugees and asylum seekers in volunteering and help them develop skills that will increase their chances of getting a job.The interviews were conducted by volunteers from the Salford Community Education Support Centre. In early 2020, volunteers were recruited through the 5 reminiscence sessions and in Feb and Oct 2020, were trained by the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust on how to conduct and document oral history interviews. The 8 oral history interviews and illustrated comic book further explored topics from the reminiscence sessions and discussed experiences of language barriers, education systems and adapting to an unfamiliar culture.Due to the disruption of Covid-19 and the subsequent lockdowns, the project experienced some difficulties in conducting the oral history interviews. To safeguard interviewees and interviewers and ensure social distancing, the project adapted two of their face-to-face interviews to phone interviews. A project extension was granted by the Heritage Fund till April 2021 to accommodate to this change.These stories were shared with wider communities at the project’s celebration event in 2021 and through the distribution of the comic book to schools in Salford and in the archive at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre. By recording these stories, it is hoped that future generations will foster a sense of belonging within their communities and have a deeper understanding of one's own heritage. Alongside the archive, a digital exhibition will take place at the Manchester Central Library.The Salford Community Education Support Centre are also hoping to further the legacy of the Story Telling Project by building on it and undertaking another project. This second project titled ‘Discover our Culture and Traditions’ aims to capture and document marriage traditions of the Congolese community in Manchester.Catalogue created Feb 2024
Copies available:
Access copies of interviews available
Topics:
Record types:
Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre
Language:
English
Record number:
16434462