As a Britsh born Kashmiri from Dadyal, Amraz feels privileged that his work has been recognised and enabled him to portray a positive representation of his culture and heritage.
Below is an extract from a Birmingham World article regarding Darnish's achievements:
The 38 year-old has mentored young people involved in gangs, county lines, anti-social behaviour and young people involved in knife crime. He has spent hours going to young people’s houses, talking to young people when he has got calls from parents, relatives, community projects and faith-based projects.
He has delivered workshops out of working hours to young people and sacrificed his weekends to get a positive message across.
He has worked the streets and gone into areas identified as high risk by West Midlands Police and has worked with young people on their grounds building a relationship with them helping them get into employment education and training.
Darnish has worked the streets and gone into areas identified as high risk by West Midlands Police and has worked with young people on their grounds building a relationship with them helping them get into employment education and training.
He encouraged one young person to become a member of the youth parliament and speak in the House of Parliament around knife crime. He encouraged young Muslim females to come out and speak about the stereotypes they face.
He has worked in partnership with the West Midlands Police helping police and young people build a positive relationship, he helped the Police and crime commissioner’s office set up a Mentoring and Violence Prevention Programme.
Darnish trained 15 young people on how to deliver workshops on knife crime so they could go out and spread the positive messages; young people who he trained delivered workshops to over 800 people in the 2019 summer holidays throughout West Midlands and got over 10 schools to sign up to the programme.
He has led the UK Youth Parliament for Birmingham. He set up the Birmingham aspiring youth council in Birmingham so young people could come and express their views around what negativity they are facing, this youth council feeds back to local councillors, MPs and police around what young people feel.
During the pandemic in 2020 whilst workers were working from home, he volunteered to go out on the streets to hotspot areas where young people hang out and work with them to sign post them to services and explaining what risk they are facing and what impact it can have on families.
He was praised for his work by a local councillor and the police chief, they even donated him a mountain bike so he could cover a wider patch. He was appointed by Birmingham City Council youth service to become the youth violence interrupter in March 2020.
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