This week we worked with local schools at Southwark Cathedral. The children enjoyed traveling back to Victorian England to work in a Manchester cotton mill, a circus and experience life on the streets of London. After the performance we usually show the DVD of street children's stories from Manila, which we shot in the Autumn. On Thursday we had some technical problems and so we talked to the children about ways we might be able to alter our lives in order to give other children around the world more choice.
We shared about a CMS supported project run by the Church of Bangladesh called Nobakoli, which train and employ girls and young women who have been trafficked in sewing and various craft skills. When we explained that all the costumes from the performance which the children were wearing were hand stitched very skillfully by this project and showed them some of the girls at work it had a real impact. If you want to find out more about their story then click on this Nobakoli link. We also gave out World To Rights wristbands to all the children and challenged them to engage with being a Child Right's Activist for a week by downloading a new resource we have developed on our WTR website. More pictures of our time in Southwark here.