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The DIO Race Network provides unity, a common-voice and a platform for its Black Asian Minority Ethnic community in its quest to achieving a level playing field where everyone has the capacity to fulfil their potential regardless of their background. The Race Network is one of a number of networks in DIO that aims to ensure that the needs of all employees, regardless of age, race, religion, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, disability or any other dimension of diversity are considered and valued.
The work of the Race Network will also enable DIO to improve the way it attracts, supports and retains colleagues from diverse race backgrounds through schemes such as Positive Action Pathway and Civil Service Mentoring Circles. The network focuses its activities around Commonwealth Day (second Sunday in March), Windrush Day on 22nd June and Black History Month in October.
Windrush Day — 22 June — marks the anniversary of the SS Empire Windrush docking in Tilbury in 1948, bringing Afro-Caribbean immigrants to the United Kingdom.
Many of those passengers stayed, settling either in London or further afield, finding jobs, raising families and becoming part of their local communities.
The DIO Race Network want you be inspired by the significant contribution the Windrush Generation and their descendants have made, and continue to make to our society and British life beyond.
Reading resources for Windrsuh Day:
Leonard is shocked when he arrives with his mother in the port of Southampton. His father is a stranger to him, it’s cold and even the Jamaican food doesn’t taste the same as it did back home in Maroon Town. But his parents have brought him here to try to make a better life, so Leonard does his best not to complain, to make new friends, to do well at school – even when people hurt him with their words and with their fists.
Small Island portrays the life of the Jamaican immigrants in England after WW2, and their struggle to establish new life in a society of white majority. a story of post war migration, narrated from four different perspectives - two white and black couples.
A remarkable oral history of black post-war British life… Homecoming is an extraordinary and compelling book' Daily Telegraph Homecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the people who came to Britain from the West Indies between the late 1940s and the early 1960s.
Combining historical fact with voices from the Windrush Generation, this book sensitively tells the inspiring story of the Windrush Generation pioneers for younger readers.
Voices of the Windrush Generation is a collection of stories from the men, women and children of the Windrush generation - West Indians who emigrated to Britain between 1948 and 1971 in response to labour shortages, and in search of a better life.
Exciting Recipes to try...
Fried Fish (Escovitch)
Fish
Escovitch Sauce
“Nanny May’s” Mac ‘n’ Cheese pie
Best served warm with Bajan Coleslaw, curry goat and rice and peas.
Enjoy!
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