The Bradford Aunties on their cross-generational BBC film
It takes a village to raise a child,” says the proverb. Yet three dynamic South Asian volunteers from Bradford were hearing that this was no longer happening.
“It came across that there was a barrier between the youth and the elderly,” said Tahera Kacholia, one of the trio who work with women’s groups in their community.
Rubina Niazi agreed: “The ladies were complaining about the young people, saying that they don’t listen nowadays.” And that “they don’t sit with their grandparents. They don’t talk,” added Ghazala Khalid.