AFRICAN SWAHILI COMMUNITY PROJECT IN THE UK

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SERVICES

ASCOP 

THE LOCAL RESPONSE TO THE AFRICAN SWAHILI SPEAKING REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS

 

 

SERVICES:

Information, Advice, Support and Referrals on:

  1. Housing,
  2. Immigration,
  3. Employment,
  4. Welfare benefits,
  5. Education and training
  6. Health.

 

ASCOP provides a comprehensive approach to community empowerment: personal, social, cultural and economic. The Organisation has a powerful vision the refugee communities belonging to a global city, like London, not as victims or a drain on resources but as actors in a new future.

 

ASCOP carries out the following activities:

  1. Provide information and advice on health: HIV/AIDS, mental health, drug and alcohol use.
  2. Provide information, advice, support and referrals on:
    1. Housing,
    2. Immigration,
    3. Employment,
    4. Welfare benefits,
    5. Education and training.

This is done through monthly meetings, yearly events, monthly newsletter seminars and workshops.

  1. Provide translating and interpreting services for community members, service users and external agencies.
  2. Work with children, youth and a family to promote mother tongue ("SWAHILI") and cultural classes, arrange outings and trips to historical sites in the UK.

ASCOP  works in collaboration with other agencies concerned with the welfare and health of African communities to improve the material conditions of Swahili speaking men, women, youth and children. 

In order to improve the management and service delivery capacities of ASCOP and ensure that our programmes have an impact, it will be important to work on strengthening and developing the organisation. This is why we have for the first time, developed a programme for the institutional development of ASCOP. 

 

 

 

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