MOTHER AND CHILD WELFARE ORGANISATION 

The funding will be used to create a weekly health forum for Somali adults. The project aims to help address health and wellbeing and raise awareness of other support services available locally.

Towards their work supporting mental health in women

This one-year project is mainly for women from migrant backgrounds, but not exclusively from Africa, living in Hammersmith and Fulham, West London. It aims to provide peer support and solidarity ....more

This one-year project is mainly for women from migrant backgrounds, but not exclusively from Africa, living in Hammersmith and Fulham, West London. It aims to provide peer support and solidarity between women from different countries and cultures who face the same issues and can experience isolation. There are three weekly sessions: a discussion group, a training /activity session and a tea and story session. The content of the activity sessions includes ESOL, functional, and IT skills training, so the women can buy food online, get information, make appointments and support their children. It also provides self-care sessions, a fun exercise held in a private courtyard, and mental health first aid training.

A grant of £7,974 was awarded to continue practical and online support for BAME mothers and their children living in poverty, many of whom are from the Somali community.

The funding is for support for vulnerable adults and young people from Somali backgrounds. We will target areas of poverty in Wandsworth, especially the Alton Estate in Roehampton. We will provide ....more

The funding is for support for vulnerable adults and young people from Somali backgrounds. We will target areas of poverty in Wandsworth, especially the Alton Estate in Roehampton. We will provide food parcels, payment of pressing utility bills, signposting to food banks and information targeting young people and single mothers.

Grant to C-19 CCLORS - Mother and Child Welfare Organisation

towards immediate subsistence, debt counselling and support for the most vulnerable community members who are suffering long term poverty as a result of the impact of Covid-19 as outlined in your ....more

towards immediate subsistence, debt counselling and support for the most vulnerable community members who are suffering long term poverty as a result of the impact of Covid-19 as outlined in your application. This funding may NOT be used to make cash payments to families. Vouchers are acceptable expenditure

Grant to Mother and Child Welfare Organisation to support the organisation through COVID19

A grant of £4,800 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners

The funding will be used to deliver a series of communication classes, inter-generational sessions and a range of activities for young people from the Somali community, in order to improve learning ....more

The funding will be used to deliver a series of communication classes, inter-generational sessions and a range of activities for young people from the Somali community, in order to improve learning English as a second language and to build relationships.

We want to offer a weekly peer support session for Somali women living on the White City Estate in Shepherd's Bush. Our research has identified a shifting population of approx 85 women who all ....more

We want to offer a weekly peer support session for Somali women living on the White City Estate in Shepherd's Bush. Our research has identified a shifting population of approx 85 women who all struggle with mental health on the estate. The women are all socially isolated and the peer support sessions will provide them with a place to come outside the estate where they can create a support group for themselves with our help. The office space we will use is within walking distance of the estate on the Uxbridge Road.The session will last from 10am-1pm, with women attending after they have taken their children to school. The session will be facilitated by a Somali woman who lives on the White City Estate and has a Diploma in Counseling and a Degree in Psychology. She has already conducted a scoping study, and has developed familiarity with the women and their problems.The session will be guided by the needs of the participants. Somali culture emphasises group social life around shared tasks and each session will include a shared meal that the women will cook together.The transience of the White City population is very high, and we expect to see 45 women over the course of six months. Each session will be attended by an average of fifteen women. The sessions will be in Somali but the facilitator is bi lingual in Somali and English and will co-ordinate the project.

This two-year project delivered weekly meetings for parents of Somali origin from the Shepherd’s Bush area, to come together, tackle social isolation and build confidence. The weekly sessions ....more

This two-year project delivered weekly meetings for parents of Somali origin from the Shepherd’s Bush area, to come together, tackle social isolation and build confidence. The weekly sessions offered discussion and peer-support as well as practical skills training, such as IT and planning and budgeting, identified and selected by the participants. The group was supported to put their training into practice to plan, manage and deliver events and activities for their children and the wider local community.