{"id":13800,"date":"2016-04-27T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T13:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=13800"},"modified":"2016-04-27T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T13:40:12","slug":"young-girl-counters-extremism-with-tower-hamlets-young-leaders-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/27\/young-girl-counters-extremism-with-tower-hamlets-young-leaders-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Girl counters extremism with Tower Hamlets Young Leaders Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bright individual was chosen to take part in the <em>Tower Hamlets<\/em> <em>Young Leaders Programme, <\/em><em>which helps students act on issues and causes they feel passionate about, through the use of workshops and community events. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The programme aims to help transform young adults into future community leaders <\/em>by teaching leadership skills, crisis management and developing their critical thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Julia, one of selectees, has chosen to focus on <em>Prevent \u2013 <\/em>the governmental strategy to tackle radicalisation and terror within schools \u2013 during her time on the seven-month programme.<\/p>\n<p>The impassioned 16-year-old, who has been hosting seminars and giving presentations to large audiences, says: \u201cWe need to raise awareness about terrorism and radicalisation in order to combat it. Vulnerable people all over the world are being targeted and it will continue if we aren\u2019t educated and don\u2019t stand up to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Choosing counter-radicalisation, Julia gave her first conference speech to an audience of influential people from education, local government, police and community groups.<\/p>\n<p>She explains: \u201cMy whole body was shaking when I entered the room,\u201d she admitted. \u201cBut once I started, I began to feel more comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really felt like I had achieved something after I\u2019d finished. Hopefully my talks can help to raise awareness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Bangladesh, Julia and her family immigrated to Italy when she was just 6 years old. After relocating last year to London, Julia became a student at Tower Hamlets College, created for teenagers aged 14 to 16.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Young Leaders Programme<\/em> has helped youngsters like Julia, who once felt isolated and hesitant to voice their opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bright individual was chosen to take part in the Tower Hamlets Young Leaders Programme, which helps students act on issues and causes they feel passionate about, through the use of workshops and community events. The programme aims to help transform young adults into future community leaders by teaching leadership skills, crisis management and developing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}