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By Soofiya and young people at KRAN

Futures of Care Manifesto

In 2021 People United collaborated with youth leaders at Kent Refugee Action Network (KRAN) and Pie Factory Music, 16 – 20 year-old refugees at KRAN and artist Soofiya to co-create a Manifesto of Care. The manifesto explores what we care about, what we wish for and what we want to change. It functions as both a “make your own manifesto of care” kit and poster.
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The Futures of Care Manifesto cover page, with the title in a hand-written style font on an orange and yellow background.
Futures of Care by Soofiya
Pages 1 and 2 of the Futures of Care Manifesto. Boxes of text on the left explain how the project began and developed. On the right are a jumble of words titled
Futures of Care by Soofiya
Pages 3 and 4 of the Futures of Care Manifesto. On the left is the manifesto itself: Freedom, no stress, no more war, peace, to be brave, health, a house, success, happiness, to be a famous footballer, to be a good person. On the right the reader is prompted to write down 3 wishes, one for themselves, one for their loved ones, and one for the world.
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Pages 5 and 6 of the Futures of Care Manifesto. On the left the reader is invited to write their own Manifesto of Care, by building on the wishes they wrote on the previous page. On the right is a page for thank-yous, where the young people who helped develop the Manifesto have each signed their name. Underneath are special thank-yous to Tanja, Mohammad, Bashir, Chevonne and Chloe.
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The back cover of the Futures of Care Manifesto, with logos for People United, KRAN and Pie Factory Music, followed by logos for funders including Arts Council England, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Creative Estuary and Kent County Council. At the bottom of the page is the People United website and Twitter and Instagram links for each of the organisations involved in developing the Manifesto and Soofiya, the artist who designed the Manifesto itself.
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A rectangular poster with an orange, yellow and purple pastel background and a border of abstract orange lines. In the centre is a purple line-drawing. When the poster is portrait the animal looks like a rabbit, when the poster is landscape, the animal looks like a duck. Circling the drawing are the words
Futures of Care by Soofiya

We have included alt-text for these images, which outlines the key details. Below is an audio description of the Manifesto which provides a more in-depth description as well as full narration of the text.

Through prompts, the manifesto invites the reader to create their own Manifesto of Care.

In December 2021 it was distributed to 180 young people across East Kent including 30 young people at KRAN, 120 young carers via Dover smART Project and 30 young people at Pie Factory Music as part of Creative Care Toolkit Packages. In 2022 many of the young people who received these will take part in workshops, using this manifesto to collaboratively create their own Manifestos of Care.

The manifesto is the starting point for the wider Futures of Care programme taking place in 2022, exploring how we can collectively imagine new ways of caring.

Funded by

Arts Council England
Paul Hamlyn Foundation