News & Updates
Rahma Wins YEF’s Youth Professional of the Year Award
Suchismita Majumdar, Research & Policy Officer, ESDEG We are delighted to announce that Ms. Rahma Elmi, ESDEG’s Youth Worker who is based in Northolt Secondary School has won this year’s Youth Professional of the Year award at the Young Ealing Foundation’s Awards...
We Asked Students About Their Mental Health
Suchismita Majumdar, Research & Policy Officer, ESDEG ESDEG is proud to be part of the London Challenge Poverty Week campaign and we would like to contribute to this campaign by launching our report on students' mental health. We asked more than a hundred students...
Breaking Social Isolation – Elderly Club in Northolt
Suchismita Majumdar, Research & Policy Officer, ESDEG ESDEG was founded in 2005 by the members of the Somali refugee community to help their children bridge the attainment gap in schools. Very soon it became apparent to the founding members that the elders in the...
Breaking Social Stigma Around Mental Health
Suchismita Majumdar, Research & Policy Officer ESDEG As we celebrate mental health awareness in May we would like to talk about the perceptions and attitudes on mental health. ESDEG works with the marginalised global majority migrant communities from low-income...
After-School Sports Sessions in Ealing
Suchsimita Majumdar, Research & Policy Officer, ESDEG ESDEG was founded in 2005 by the members of the Somali refugee community to help their children bridge the attainment gap in schools. For the last two decades ESDEG has continued with this programme which has...
School Attendance Event at the Viking Community Centre
Suchismita Majumdar, Research & Policy Officer, ESDEG On 31st January 2024 an informal discussion and workshop on School Attendance was held at the Viking Community Centre in Northolt hosted by ESDEG. Ealing Council’s Ms. Anna Elliott, Supporting Families...
ESDEG representing the ethnic minority voice at the SEND Summit: Policy Reform & Practice Impact 2023
Suchismita Majumdar, Research & Policy Officer, ESDEG ESDEG’s SEND Team was invited to represent the ethnic minority community and present on the topic ‘Supporting Ethnic Minority Families Whose Children Have Special Needs’ at the 3rd annual SEND Summit which took...
Hosting the Challenge Child Poverty Event at Viking Community Centre, Northolt
Suchismita Majumdar, Research & Policy Officer, ESDEG On 23rd of October ESDEG organised a two-part event as a wrap up to the week-long London Challenge Poverty Week (londonchallengepovertyweek.org) campaign at the Viking Community Centre in Northolt. In the first...
Raising a disabled child in the challenging economic times – ESDEG mothers’ testimony at Westminster
Suchismita Majumdar, Research & Policy Officer, ESDEG Organised by 4in10 on the 16th of October which was the first day of London Challenge Poverty Week 2023, two of ESDEG’s mothers whose children have special needs went to Westminster to talk to some of the MPs....