Aayatiin Foundation has been established in 2005 to contribute attainments of the vulnerable Somali community living in Southwest London. The foundation successfully runs study support, homework clubs, community language support and youth development initiatives for 6-16 years old students. The main objectives ware:

·        To provide study support in order to improve the level of achievement;

·        To provide homework club and mentoring programmes in both secondary and primary schools;

·        Promote Somali language teaching promote community cohesion and celebrate pupil achievement

·        Organise regular consultation, social and educational meetings, which bring Somali community, BME communities, residents, wider public, local authority and national authority to discuss ways of improving community commission.

Aayatiin aims to become a lead Somali community language centre that promotes Somali language, share best practices, identify challenges and explore opportunities. We work with various local mainstream organisations including schools, local authority, and other partner agencies that focus on education & community languages. We are also developing models that will allow supplementary schools and mainstream schools work more closely complementing each other.

Some work has initially has started where four supplementary schools have come to work partnership with mainstream schools, Lambeth college and local authority. Further a series of focus groups comprising students, parents and community leaders to establish Somali language, build their moral, confidence, raise self-esteem and motivations. In order to improve our services, our school is now preparing Quality Framework for supplementary schools from Continyou.