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Who Are We?
WORLDwrite is an education charity with a difference. Its mission is to challenge prejudices and stereotypes by giving young people a unique opportunity to see the world from a fresh perspective through a first-hand, investigative filmmaking experience. The charity helps create links between young people across the globe, encouraging them to learn from their peers, develop new skills, expand their horizons and champion the aspirations of newfound friends.
For many years the charity's work revolved around two-way youth exchange programmes. The charity is now film-focused. WORLDwrite encourages young people to critically examine the world to understand and support their peers using film and new media technologies.
WORLDwrite won enormous public support and celebrity backing for an exchange visit to Hiroshima in August 1995 on the fiftieth anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In 1996 the charity coordinated a Europe-wide anti-racist exchange and tour, linking up with German school students, Algerian youth groups, Kurdish refugees and holocaust survivors. The tour culminated in a Youth Summit in Strasbourg. In 1997 WORLDwrite arranged the first leg of a youth exchange and internet link with Ghana in West Africa. British school students successfully challenged the notion that young people in Africa cannot cope with computers. Through a computer appeal launched with the IYEP-Ghana, British students took the first computer to Wulugu Secondary School in northern Ghana and have continued to ship out computers to schools in Ghana ever since. In 1998 WORLDwrite established partnerships with rubber-tappers, Indians and peasant farmers in the Brazilian Amazon. In 1998 WORLDwrite gained NVYO status from the Department for Education and NGO accreditation from the United Nations. In 1999 WORLDwrite established partnerships with groups working with bonded child labourers in Delhi and with villages in the Narmada valley. In 2000 WORLDwrite ran a "millennium relay", over 100 young people from the UK carried the baton for development and linked with their peers in Brazil, India, Ghana and Germany. As a result of their experiences young volunteers have reported back in over 700 UK schools, established numerous appeals to assist partner groups and made North-South equality their lifelong cause.
WORLDwrite has run programmes with young people across the UK, Europe, Ghana, Brazil, Uganda, South Africa, India, and Japan. Building on past successes, WORLDwrite now runs film-based programmes.
Registered Office
The WORLDwrite Centre
Millfields Lodge
201 Millfields Road
London, E5 0AL
Tel/Fax: (0044) 020 8985 5435
Email: world.write@btconnect.com
Registered with the charity commission as a youth education charity.
WORLDwrite Charity Registration Number: 1060869