youth Projects

Shareefa has worked on several projects, facilitated workshops and been commissioned to work with children at both primary and secondary school ages. She was poet in residence at North Kensington Library for the Apples and Snakes Spine Festival in 2018 and 2019, facilitating workshops with schools as well as intergenerational workshops.

She was lead facilitator for the Moon Festival 2018 in Woolwich Library, working with local school children and preparing them for performances. She worked for Kids On The Green, a project set up after the Grenfell fire to support the impacted children in the local community from 2017-2019 doing poetry, songwriting, studio recording and performance workshops. Shareefa has also worked as a facilator on music and film projects at The Roundhouse.  

She was a facilitator for the Eastside spoken word poetry marathon, preparing children in schools with their writing and performances. Below are resources she created to support the Eastside national 'I Know, I Wish, I Will' project to be circulated to school teachers to assist the children's writing.

Here’s a resource created for the WoW Foundation activity pack to be distributed in schools to encourage teenagers to have Healthy Relationships