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The subtitles / captions have been generated automatically. If you notice any errors please let us know so we can correct them.Javed is a family carer for his brother Mohammed, who has a learning disability. He's also a community champion and is involved in lots of initiatives at local and national level to support families and communities. In this video, Javed talks about the value of the role of community champions who can communicate in multiple languages, in supporting individuals and families in communities where the main language is not English. Javed shares how those with lived experience can support others in their communities and get involved in co-producing policy and action.
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I mean, the, the major issue we've got, we've got loads of people from different countries with different languages. And everyone doesn't speak English. That's one of our major problems we've got. So if we can have more people as community champions in different communities would speak in different languages, that will be really helpful to help other people
So like myself, I can speak 6 different languages. So I can help people with different 6 different languages, but like we want more people who can speak like Nigerian, Arabic, you know, you know, Chinese, you know, Japanese, all the many, many different languages. So for example, originally where I was where I was born, we call it the mini United Nation area because there's so many people from around the world living there speaking different languages
One school. Around the corner from there has 85 different languages of children in that school. I mean, we've, we've recently uh working as a multi-agency, um, there's a, it's a, a home office strategy called Clear Hall Build
So Clear Hall Build is a national um project of where the areas are being put down to rebuild the area, so multi agencies are working in that multi-agency, what we've done, we've made leaflets for everyone in their language. So they can understand what improvements we are doing in the area, not just specifically on the policing or the crime side, including health as well, and what support and help they can get from health professionals and other agencies as well. I mean, I would say the people who've got experience in their field
They should be more open and go out there and help people. And they can pass their experience on to to other people and get them trained and so they can pass that experience to other people. So it's like my grandfather was a community champion, my dad was, and it's been passed on in generations, and I'm, I'm, I'm doing it now
So I'm looking forward for my son to, to follow my footsteps as well. It's, I, I'll tell you one thing, if we can work together as one team and we've done like multicultural events where we've had health health professionals, we've had the police, we've had the ambulance, we have the fire service, we've had other organisations who come over. And when we look, we've got a multicultural event
Everyone's turned up. We can live in a peace world, you know, we can, we can live together and we can work together.
