Alexander Rose, a 19-year-old art student, has the support of the Attram family in launching a campaign against gun and knife crime. He was a close friend and fellow student of Eugene at Ernest Bevin School in Tooting who was fatally stabbed in Micham in 2006.
Through a range of posters and t-shirts which he has designed and produced, he hopes to offer young people an alternative fashion to the gangster culture that is consuming so many youngsters.
In addition to selling the products to young people in the borough, Alexander is in discussion with officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Trident, which deals with shootings and stabbings among young black Londoners, to help market the campaign. He has also persuaded prominent figures in the UK Garage music industry to help with promotion by wearing his clothing.
Eugene’s death had a profound effect spurring Alex to start the campaign. He was a student alongside Eugene and described him as one of the good guys, who worked hard and avoided getting involved in the culture his friends were part of.
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July 16th, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Hi Alex,
It is with great pride to see you doing this amazing project for the community where you live and the UK generally.
I decided to get in touch with you as I am the project director for the manchester community impact forum currently leading a gun/knife crime community discussion forum project across 11 vulnerable wards in the greater manchester borough.
We are working to launch this project officially at the town hall in manchester on the 26th August between 6-8pm.
I would like you to be one of our special guests for the evening. We are hoping to have several MPs, councillors, and all the youth community group leaders representing all wards across manchester.
Our website is currently under construction but you can reach me on my project mobile phone; pls do drop me a line soon..(07946)548439 so that we can have a better chat about this issue and the wonderful work you’re doing so that we can learn from each other to make further progress in this area.
February 24th, 2010 at 12:24 PM
hi Alex
My name is Mohamed am a support worker/tutor working for an organization called Nationwide Learning I heard about your story and was really interested, at the moment I work with young offenders and also youngsters at risk of getting into crime and gangs and also some who are already affiliated with a gang. Here in our centre we try to help the youngsters overcome the obstacles and challenges they face or might face by getting in professional t-shirt designers and young entrepreneurs to teach and encourage them to make a change in their life’s also to put their life experiences on t-shirts positively. I was hoping if you could come down to our centre and delivery a small workshop or encouraging speech as some of the young people might have faced similar experience to yourself.