Recognising the importance of engendering networks across the European Community, Esteem intends to bring three NGO’s together, with the purpose of fostering social and cultural integration and community development through this Dance Integration Project.
Young people from a disadvantaged background who currently attend and train at Suga Brown will have the opportunity to work with another disadvantaged group in a foreign country. Both groups will learn from each other, helping to improve all of the participants’ self esteem, confidence, understanding of other people and cultures as well as improving overall physical and mental health.
-See our BLOG page for 2010 & 2011 Spanish Project taster weeks.
-Following the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004, ESTEEM, then going under its original name of C.H.O.I.C.E. (Childrens’ Homes or ‘In Care' Experience) our team used the money we raised in Brighton to train some of the disaster affected the young women to produce 'Tsunami Tamil Teddy Bears' which we later used to raise money in several countries.
-Other work was done with Sudanese refugee families in Brighton as well as one- to-one work with care-leavers in Sussex and France