Many housing providers are prioritising initiatives to improve safety in our neighbourhoods. At our General Assembly in Norrköping (Sweden), we’ll be exploring the role of the housing provider in building safe communities and sharing best practice. We are so pleased to welcome Rodin Hajo from the Shanazi Heroes, who will be sharing how education and mentoring is helping to tackle honour-related violence in Sweden.
Rodin Hajo is Operations Manager of the Shanazi Heroes. Rodin holds several years of management experience at homes for care or residence for troubled young people. Also having a background as a high school teacher, he is now working to train young men to resist and prevent honour-related violence.
Previously, Rodin visited Kurdistan in northern Iraq to gain insight into work against honour-related violence and oppression, and he has also sat in the ‘Resource Team’ on honour-related issues within the county government in Gävleborg.
Shanazi Heroes
The Shanazi Heroes is an initiative to combat honour-related violence and oppression. The group of young men fights for equal value of all people and each person’s right to choose their own life.
Through education and providing role models, Shanazi Heroes strengthen young people’s ability to see, understand, and act differently. Their way of working is based on human rights, children’s rights, equality, and democracy.
Eurhonet colleagues sharing best practice at the General Assembly 2023.
Conference and General Assembly
This year’s Conference and General Assembly will be hosted by Hyresbostäder. Alongside discussions of safety and security, we will also be exploring how to reduce stigmatisation of certain neighbourhoods through an interactive workshop.
The discussions will be complemented by interesting study visits. We will explore neighbourhood redevelopment by visiting a state-of-the-art visualisation centre. We will witness the evolution of the development through a 360° digital visualisation, showing us how the area will look 20 years from now.
Participants can then choose to visit the neighbourhood and see how the construction projects are progressing in real life, or to learn about social cohesion projects in the Klocket neighbourhood. The area – once on the police’s list of vulnerable residential areas in Sweden – has been transformed through sports, culture, and learning.
Join us in Norrköping
Eurhonet members can already register and find the detailed programme in our Members Only Zone. If you are not yet a members of Eurhonet, find out about joining us.
