Supporting people with life-threatening and life-limiting illnesses

International

ICYE

Joint International
Project

Involved Parties

Joint International Project
Involved Parties

We have been graciously granted by the Southern Sudanese Coordinating Council a newly constructed health centre compound and buildings for the purposes of our project.

Freshwinds

Since 1992 Freshwinds has provided an individualised and holistic, medical and social approach to care. It provides support to adults, children and families living with life-threatening or life-limiting conditions and those who are socially excluded.

Freshwinds provides high quality therapy, welfare rights, career and educational development, grants and housing support which includes specific programmes on HIV, youth welfare, substance misuse, crime reduction for all communities of Birmingham. Freshwinds also runs a number of regional networks for health and social care.

Freshwinds sees over 350 individual clients each month and has over 3,000 registered clients and is continuously providing information and advice to over 3000 people a year. Through our awareness campaigns and events we inform many thousands more.

ACCR

The African Community Council for the Regions was established in 2000 as an umbrella organisation for African Community Groups as well as providing services itself for asylum seekers and refugees as well as assisting the African community with general issues they may face. ACCR supports many African community organisations both in providing assistance, workshops and events as well as providing direct services to 600 people. It also disseminates a lot of information to the African community through its events and campaigns.

Kondial (Sudan)

Since 1992 Kondial has created opportunities for self-help alongside women's initiatives and activities. Additionally they have started socio-economic programmes for internally displaced refugees from southern Sudan, assisting people to retain their cultural identity and personal dignity using African traditional dance, theatre and faith choirs.

Over many years Kondial has assisted many thousands of southern Sudanese displaced persons to regain and develop their lives.

Ethiopian Insight

Founded by Joseph Edwards in 1992 it has from its inception, over the past ten years been working closely with Ethiopian government agencies, and Church and community initiatives.

These projects include working with the Relief and Rehabilitation Department, The Pioneer Settlers Corps Housing Development and Ethiopian Church projects for the poor. Work has included the delivering of medicines, clothing, educational material, musical equipment, sports equipment, farming tools and livestock. Three libraries have been created, wheelchairs provided for the disabled and support given to rural schools as well as a fourteen room Pioneers Settlers Guest house being built.

In order to build upon this work Ethiopian Insight continues to establish more links to create training and employment in Africa for Africans and for people who wish to contribute to the betterment of others in the developing world. In 1999-2000 Ethiopian Insight began delivering projects to educate the communities in England about Ethiopia and Africa in general, and address some of the problems both communities face, these include the breakdown of the family unit, alongside the lack of employment strategies. All of these factors combine and subsequently undermine the stability of society and impede socio-economic development.

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