Reaching out

Reaching Out is part of an £87 million joint regeneration programme by L&Q and MHT in Edmonton Green which has delivered more than 700 new homes and refurbished a further 600. However, both associations saw physical regeneration as only part of their task and set up Reaching Out to work with the local Kurdish and Turkish community who had difficulties gaining access to education, health care, housing and other services.

Halit Firat a Turkish outreach worker was appointed to work with the community to address its concerns, all of which are compounded by language barriers. Reaching Out offers a range of services, among them

• drop-in sessions
• monthly public information meetings
• publishing a quarterly Turkish-language newspaper
• running weekly English-language courses with the help of Enfield College
• supporting a homework club with 118 young people on the register.

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