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Galgael: Building Skills and Community in Govan

A working community making a stand for compassion health and justice.

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Galgael: Building Skills and Community in Govan

My story of hopefulness comes from an incredible organisation called Galgael. And they operate out of this huge warehouse just on the south of the river Clyde in a place called Govan, a former shipbuilding community. And they are all about giving folks who have just come out of prison or tackling addiction or long term unemployment, giving them not just some skills and a sense of purpose, but a sense of community, and they call it a clan, giving them a sense of clan ship.

And what they do in this huge warehouse is use traditional ship building techniques. It visually looks incredible. It smells extraordinary. But what they're doing, I think, is probably quite literally a suicide prevention campaign. They always recognise they're just a sticking plaster. They're very humble and very attentive to the nature of the wider economic system that is driving people to their doors. But I think they're just an extraordinary, very precious organisation.

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My story of hopefulness comes from an incredible organisation called Galgael. And they operate out of this huge warehouse just on the south of the river Clyde in a place called Govan, a former shipbuilding community. And they are all about giving folks who have just come out of prison or tackling addiction or long term unemployment, giving them not just some skills and a sense of purpose, but a sense of community, and they call it a clan, giving them a sense of clan ship. And what they do in this huge warehouse is use traditional ship building techniques. It visually looks incredible. It smells extraordinary. But what they're doing, I think, is probably quite literally a suicide prevention campaign. They always recognise they're just a sticking plaster. They're very humble and very attentive to the nature of the wider economic system that is driving people to their doors. But I think they're just an extraordinary, very precious organisation.

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