Inequality & discrimination

KNIVES-The Gym that fights gang rivalry in East London

In Newham, a working-class neighbourhood a stone’s throw from London’s Olympic Village, Raheel Butt, an ex-convict, has started a gym to get out of the city. London, Raheel Butt, an ex-convict, has started a gym to get children off the streets.Children off the streets. For him, the area has become “a war zone” and his gym a shelter for his gym a shelter for these youngsters who are killing each other in gang warfare.

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