President's Message
100 Black Men of Birmingham believe in the promise of our youth and we exist to mentor our youth where we can. We will encourage and guide our youth to realise their potential in positive ways. What they see is what they can be. The African Caribbean community in Birmingham faces many challenges, by mentoring we hope we are playing a part in moving the community forward, and developing our future leaders.
We have been working in various schools in the city with our unique mentoring programme for several years and the demand for our services constantly outstrips our ability to provide the mentors to meet it. We need more mentors. We run our monthly community programme at the Drum in Aston for young people, it's interactive, informative and above all fun for the young people, but to grow that too we need more mentors.
We are excited about a new mentoring programme which begins at HMP Stafford in December 2005, where members of 100 will be developing a mentoring programme for the African-Caribbean prisoners there. This is new, challenging ground for the organisation. We hope to do more mentoring work of this nature but to do it we need more mentors.
At 100 we encourage our youth to realise their own potential and in turn think of ways in which they in turn can help the community. All of us can and should "give something back". I would encourage those of you interested in mentoring to come along to one of our sessions. Get involved, and lets help build a brighter future for our youth.
Nigel Gardner
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