The Harambee Centre is a Development Education centre which promotes understanding and action on global issues. We provide opportunities for young people to understand more about how their everyday actions affect the world around them and how they can take action on global issues.

We work with educators in the formal sector (schools & colleges), informal sector (youth workers), and in the community.

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Dig for Sustainability video - Harambee-supported youth group explores how past sustainability practices such as Dig for Victory relate to present day concerns

The final project video of the Dig for Sustainability project - copies on DVD will be going out to Cambridgeshire primary and secondary schools shortly. We hope schools will find this useful for:-

• Enlivening World War II history classes by showing testimony of those who lived through it on the Home Front and connecting Dig for Victory with present day concerns about sustainability. Ideal for Key Stage 2 & 3
• Initiating discussion on how active citizenship and sustainability in your school or group could be explored through outdoor learning opportunities such as an allotment or trips to relevant organisations.

The project received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and v

Young people in action - three photo stories showing Harambee supported youth volunteers:-

Getting Stuck In - The Big Dig - young volunteers improve the allotment of a Cambridge based support group for the homeless - the Cambridge Cyrenians.
Art In The Tunnel - young people from the Blackwell Travellers site in Cambridge clean up the entrance to their site and paint a mural in the tunnel to improve their local environment.
Painted Large - Youth involved with the Ely Garage project create two massive murals that will decorate the building that the Ely Garage project is renovating to become their new youth arts and social centre