Sharing Communities is an educational programme sold to schools in Gloucestershire in which Indian Muslim women, Indian Hindu women and Bangladeshi women are trained to go into schools and youth groups to give presentations on their culture and religion. The project is currently establishing relationships with the East African community with the hope of involving them in the project.

Sharing Communities shares on several different levels, not only in the classroom but also amongst the women running the sessions. They organise at least 3 social evenings a year to meet and discuss input to sessions and to do mini workshops for each other to inform the different communities about their own culture. Both Muslim and Hindu women work alongside each other and some very firm friendships have been made across nationalities and faith.

The package that is sold to schools includes a presentation and then the class is split into two and there is choice of workshops which include, henna, dance, cooking, clothes, Islam and Hinduism. The Bangladeshi group has two other workshops, health and artefacts from Bangladesh.

Project type

• Interfaith
• Schools

Region

• Cheltenham