Theresa Phillips and Rosemary Artman will be providing a health promotion service with a difference. It will be tailored to meet the needs of the African Caribbean Community and will take account their cultural heritage. It will also promote the recognition of the Creole and Patwa language.
THE LUTON CREOLE PRJECT is an exciting and enticing project. It will challenge health care establishments to deliver and address deep seated views about how we as a community see Creole and Patwa as part of our daily lives. It will examine our ownership of the language as African Caribbean people and how it is as part of our cultural heritage.
The project aims to give recognition the language as a legitimate language which should be promoted and spoken with pride. Co Directors of the Project, Theresa Phillips and Rosemary Artman see the project as a vehicle to move forward rights for African Caribbean people to express themselves freely without the fear of being stigmatised. They see Creole and Patwa as an additional language in the same way as any other language such as French or German.
The project will research how the Creole and Patwa language is viewed in today's society. They hope to give the language recognition in schools, health, and a range of other public services as a legitimate part of our cultural heritage. The project has already received recognition from Dr Rober Baker a leading linguistic scholar at the University of Westminister London and from Senior Lecturers at the University of the West Indies as well as Baroness Howell an African Caribbean member of the House of Lords. It has also been endorsed by the National Heritage Fund.
Coupled with this Teresa and Rosemary, who are professionals in the field of health promotion and human resource management will be using their energies to support and empower the African Caribbean community to lead on issues which affect their health.
The launch of the LUTON CREOLE PROJECT will be held at 11.30am to 4pm. on Friday 26 October at the African Caribbean Day Centre for the Elderly, Old School House, Trinity Road, Luton.