FACET

Here’s why your charitable investment should begin here:

In London 700,000 children are living in poverty, and yet London generates a fifth of the UK’s GDP. Child Poverty Problems highlight the conditions of at least thirteen London boroughs in the top twenty areas with the most income-deprived children.

Here are some disconcerted statistics:

- a higher proportion of children live in lone parent families in inner London (18%) than in outer London (12%); they are more likely to have low incomes and experience overcrowding (19%) in comparison to children from couple families (12%)

- 1.6 million children and young people live in London; there are 947,810 young people in London aged between 15 and 24, disproportionate numbers lack training, education and jobs, and suffer poor health (mental & sexual)

- 64,000 children and young people across London live with a long term illness or disability; they face barriers in social and leisure activities leading to limited or no social interaction, lower confidence, and alienation from the local community.

Children grow up in communities where:

- 2.9m people, just over 40% of London’s population, are from a minority ethnic group

- 119,135 refugees are in London, 66% of refugee and asylum-seeker children in the UK live in London

- 522,471 families live in overcrowded conditions; there are 229,306 lone parent household and around 12,000 headed by teenage parents

- London boroughs account for seven of the ten local authorities with the highest rates of teenage pregnancy rates

- 1,200 offenders are released from prison every month, help us to develop new intervention programmes

- In 2003/04 London accounted for 24% of England’s total Mental Health admissions.

- There is a link between social and economic exclusions and the local environment, areas of deprivation across London would particularly benefit from our programmes

Have you considered what happens to children's nutritional intake when they are not at school,which provides the children Free School Meals, an indication of poverty - check Ofted reports on London schools. How about holidays? How many go to bed hungry? Food affects all aspects of us; it can be used to oppress and to heal, not just food famine as we know it in the developing world, but in Britain today!

Children in London face a much higher risk of living in a household where no adult has work ethics, and children have no role models; and the “Benefit systems that seeks to reflect and provide for individual circumstances will always be inherently complex – both for the customer and for those administering it” (a social watchdog).

Hence the needs to request your support for FACET programmes and projects financially or be a volunteer to help all our students to achieve the desired potential in them.

Please consider either getting involved or donating to FACET.