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Creating
Opportunities
for African Women
Women support & care services
Family care services
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Reproductive Health (HR)
Female
Genital Mutilation (FGM
HIV
Awareness & Prevention Haringey & Enfield
The
Children and Families Project
Refugee
Project
SRB
5 West Green African Healthy Living Project
Consortium
Refugee
Mental Health Project
Reproductive
Health (HR)
AWWG provides reproductive health services
for refugee communities in North London
ensuring that these services are available
and accessible to women in these communities.
As part of this programme, we provide communities
with advocacy and negotiating skills rasid
awareness among various target groups, i.e.
policy makers, voluntary groups to ensure
that RH is now firmly on the agenda of service
providers.
Our key achievement in this area has been
to train 15 Community Health Outreach workers.
Female
Genital Mutilation (FGM)
AWWG is one of the few organisations working
tirelessly to raise awareness of FGM and
health implications of this practise on
African women. The service generally, though
not exclusively, fall within three broad
areas:
- Support and care services for women
who have been infibulated including
reversal provision
- Prevention work within communities
who participate in the practise
- Awareness and education not only for
the community, but also for health professionals.
AWWG has been working closely with statutory
providers in training/ workshop sessions
for nurses and midwives.
HIV Awareness
& Prevention Haringey & Enfield
For the last six years, AWWG has been pioneering
HIV awareness work in the community, in
collaboration with our strategic partners
we have developed a community strategic
approach whereby the wider African community
is involved in the development, design and
delivery of the programmes. This project
provides sexual health awareness within
the target communities in general and counselling
service specifically to prevent African
women through antenatal services.
The Children and
Families Project
The guiding principle of this project is
to develop appropriate ways of providing
flexibility and continuity of care for infected
and affected families (as a unit) to lead
as near a normal life as possible Activities
include outreach AND SOCIAL SUPPORT, ONE-TO-ONE
SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY DROP-IN SERVICE, counselling
and accessing people into existing complimentary
services in the district
Refugee Project
This project seeks to support girls and
young adults within the refugee community
to adjust to the new culture and make the
transition into adulthood and towards independent
living. We provide information, advocacy,
support and advice on a range of health
and social issues.
We have developed a language and interpreting
service through a community volunteer mentoring
and training programme. Other actives include:
a referral service to local providers, drop-in
session for young mothers, personal development,
including life and social skills training.
SRB 5 West Green
African Healthy Living Project Consortium
AWWG in line with our objectives of building
sustainable partnerships and community participation
continues to play a pivotal role in the
West Green African Healthy Living Consortium:
SRB 5 Project.
Our involvement has ensured the continued
Capacity Building of community groups and
local residents and a collaborative multi-agency
Fit-For -Life: Community Mentors Programmes.
We continue to forge cross service partnership
and linkage of shared models of good practice
that will ensure sustainability of the project
beyond its lifetime.
Refugee Mental
Health Project
This project seeks to support girls and
young adults within the refugee community
to adjust to the new culture and make the
transition into adulthood and towards independent
living. We provide information, advocacy,
support and advice on a range of health
and social issues.
We have developed a language and interpreting
service through a community volunteer mentoring
and training programme. Other actives include:
a referral service to local providers, drop-in
session for young mothers, personal development,
including life and social skills training.
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Creating
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