About Us
Building Belonging, Inspiring Community – Together We Thrive!
Who we are
Efiba Arts and African Cultural Development (Efiba Arts) activities started in October 2003 in response to past media reports on “Black underachievement in schools” and the need for support to raise educational attainment of ethnic minority children in schools. In June 2004 Efiba Arts was registered as a Company Limited by Guarantee to promote cultural diversity and integration through arts, education and the promotion cultural values, information and advice as well as to engage children and young people after school to keep them off the possible negative influences on the streets and help them with their school work, enable them to enhance their self-confidence and make positive impact in their communities to become role models for the generations after them.
Achievement
Within the ten years Efiba Arts has done nearly 200 performances within England. On the average this constitutes about 20 performances per year. These performances include performances for very high profile events like.
- National event to commemorate 200 years of the abolition of slave trade in the Uk. This event took place on Tuesday 25th March 2007 at Westminster Abbey and was attended by Her Majesty the Queen and the royal family
- The regional event to commemorate 200 years of the abolition of slave trade in London region at the City Hall in August 2007. This was an event that was hosted by the then Major of London Ken Livingston with high profile guests Reverend Jesse Jackson from USA
- National Black Police Association events at South banks university
- Annual Rise Festivals from 2007 to 2009
- Biannual Youth festivals in Blackpool and many more.
- We were regularly involved in Haringey Peace Alliance and later in Hackney Peace Alliance marches
- We worked regularly with Newham African Caribbean Centre to promote cultural diversity in Newham
- We have had a significant number of the young people who used our services coming out with very high academic achievements from various universities.
- We have helped various people to set up similar organisations in Hackney, Harlow, Cambridge and other communities to support ethnic minority children and young people
Our approach
Our Aim
Our aim is to promote cultural diversity and community integration through education, social care, events, mentoring, arts and culture to reduce social exclusion and isolation of disadvantaged members of our local community.
Our Mission
Our mission is to empower disadvantaged members of our local community and encourage a culturally diverse community in which every member feels that they belong and so can contribute towards the development of the local area.
We have had over 500 children and young people participating
in our community activities and nearly 50,000 children participating in our
school activities in schools across 9 London Boroughs.