Time to SpeakUP in Denham Town

Time to SpeakUP in Denham Town

Young people in Denham Town, Kingston are pushing against the stigma and clichés surrounding their community by participating in the SpeakUP project. Denham Town is one of the communities served by UP Unity & Peace, a Collective coordinated by Fight for Peace....
Success x Adversity: Meet the athletes

Success x Adversity: Meet the athletes

The world we live in has a way of building its own ideas around what success should be. As individuals it’s important we build ideas which are realistic and workable for us. That’s why over the Olympic period we found out what success means to some of our young...
ALLIANCE MEET UPS RETURN WITH A BANG

ALLIANCE MEET UPS RETURN WITH A BANG

Fight for Peace Alliance member organisations from around the UK were able to return to normality earlier this month with the staging of a face to face meet in Wales. The focus was to bring organisations together to exchange thoughts and knowledge, and to look at...
SHUGA’S OLYMPIC JOURNEY IN TOKYO

SHUGA’S OLYMPIC JOURNEY IN TOKYO

Boxer and former Fight for Peace young person, Wanderson de Oliveira, has made history by reaching the quarter finals of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The athlete, who now lives and trains in São Paulo and is known to friends as Shuga, hails from Complexo da Maré,...
MAKING DREAMS A REALITY – CHRIS’ STORY

MAKING DREAMS A REALITY – CHRIS’ STORY

At 22 years old, Chris* is like every young person: he has big dreams and enjoys spending time with friends and listening to music. A resident of Denham Town in Kingston, his ultimate goal is to be a reggae artiste. In the meantime, he’s working in a hardware...