Black History Month Special with iROCK! UK: DO BLACK GIRLS HAVE IT HARDER?

DO BLACK GIRLS HAVE IT HARDER? THE WORKSHOP:
DATE: 27/10/2012
VENUE: The lift Islington Youth hub.

In celebrating Black History month 2012, iROCK!UK have organised a workshop for the Black girl/woman. "This event is dedicated to motivate, elevate, honour and celebrate the 'everyday Black woman'".
Despite the great accompliments by Black women in the UK, there are still that lingering doubts and issues of identity, self-worth, and the doubt on whether one deserves success.
In dealing with these issues, iROCK!UK has carefully chosen the following topics to be discussed on the workshop:

                 a). Are we our own enemy?
                 b). My self esteem.
                 c). My identity
                 d). My weight.
                 e). My skin.

"These issues may seem like petty to some but, they affect deeply many Black women, especially the younger ones like myself. We talk about these amongst ourselves and watch shows where Black Americans discuss these topics but never have the courage to challenge the society or ourselves here", says Haja Bally 28, who is also an iROCK! UK mentee.

Other topics to be covered will also include, personal finance, career, and business opportunities. As always also, young people will have the opportunity to network with professionals from various fields in business.

iROCK! UK is a social enterprise providing the platform to challenge many issues that seem quite taboo among Black women in the UK.  iROCK! UK, creates the safe environment to openly debate these issues. Their programmes not only provide youpeople with mentoring support, but also help in securing them work placement and employment opportunities.

From now iROCK! will be hosting monthly workshops for the next consecutive 6 months. For more information on this event or any of the up coming event click here