Momtaz

Posted by helen at 7am

I do everything, from coordinating projects, raising funds, cooking, cleaning, being a cabi at times as well as giving advice and guidance. BUT my actual role is to manage the projects, and evaluate our delivery and the impact we have on the young people we support. I work very closely with our board to ensure we maintain our vision and our work is as creative as possible.

I got involved from the beginning and am part of the founding members of LiC. I got involved because I wasn’t happy with the way services in housing, regeneration, youth services, training and employment lacked any youth involvement. I was particularly dissatisfied with the lack of engagement from youth services in my area. When I realised these services didn’t have a clue about how to engage with young people in housing, regeneration, or how to deliver training for young people, I wanted to offer these organisations an opportunity to work with young people which wasn’t in a tokenistic way. A group of us started LiC to show these organisations how young people, given the right guidance, can lead and make positive contributions to the way a community functions. We set up LiC so young people will have somewhere they can be creative and develop themselves and show the wider community what they can offer, which in turn makes them better people and improves their opportunities to gain employment.

Creating LiC meant that I didn’t have to rely on some other organisation approaching me. Instead I wanted the young people to set up an organisation for other young people to meet, share ideas and set up projects by themselves for the wider community to take part in- which becomes part of their career development.

My aspiration to make sure LiC gains international recognition and impacts on the lives of young people globally…and maybe at some point put my feet up…

Back to who we are