Lord Mayors Charities

Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne Cllr Habib Rahman has been a lifelong anti racist campaigner and a human rights activists. Cllr Rahman was appointed as the City’s first BAME Lord Mayor. The charities the current Lord Mayor is supporting are Show Racism the Red Card (SRtRC), Rohingya Action North East (RANE) and the Monu Dorji Foundation.

Cllr Rahman’s father was brutally murdered in 1977 in Wallsend . Cllr Rahman suffered racism and racial abuse during his teenage years such terrible experiences made him determined to become a social justice campaigner. Cllr Rahman a former youth worker working in Newcastle and Wallsend, helped set up Show Racism the Red Card serving as a Management Committee member. Cllr Rahman in his term in office as the Lord Mayor of Newcatle hopes to raise funds for his chosen charities;

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Show Racism the Red Card

Show Racism the Red Card (SRtRC) is the UK’s largest anti-racism educational charity. It was established in January 1996, thanks in part to a donation by then Newcastle United goalkeeper Shaka Hislop.

Show Racism The Red Card is an anti-racism educational charity. It aims to combat racism through enabling role models, who are predominately but not exclusively footballers, to present an anti-racist message to young people and others. Show Racism The Red Card acknowledges that racism changes, as do the experiences of Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities in the UK. Our message and activities therefore need to be able to respond to such changes as and when appropriate.

https://www.theredcard.org/

Rohingya Action North East  (RANE).

Since August 25, 2017, more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have fled to Bangladesh. This Rohingya refugee crisis is among the largest, fastest movements of people in recent history. The Rohingya, a mostly Muslim minority ethnic group in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, are escaping what the United Nations has described as genocidal violence that follows decades of persecution and human rights abuses. Flooding into Cox’s Bazar district in Bangladesh, the refugees joined more than 200,000 Rohingya who fled years before.
Today, about 880,000 stateless Rohingya refugees live in the world’s largest and most densely populated refugee camp, Kutupalong. About half of the refugees are children. RANE provides aids at the camp, raised international awareness and hopes to establish Schools for Girls and Women’s Safe Centres to empower Rohingya women living at the camp.

https://rane.uk/

Monu Dorji Foundation

Lord Mayor Rahman and his brothers have been supporting various charitable causes in their dad’s birthplace Sylhet, have set this foundation at the start of the Covid pandemic helping widows and poor families with food and shelters, children’s and orphans to continue with their education providing school materials and clothing. The foundation is established in their fathers memory and is working towards charitable status both in Bangladesh and here in the UK.