women's networks
a women in london project
funded by the maypole trust
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Networks:
Women's Health and Family Services
- Purpose:
- To advance education amongst women resident in Tower Hamlets and surrounding boroughs, to bridge cultural and language gaps between service providers and users, in particular African, Afro-Caribbean, and Asian women before during and after pregnancy. And
- To preserve and protect the health of the inhabitants of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and surrounding boroughs.
- Activities:
- Research into needs
- Advocacy, advice and information
- Health education/promotion
- Ante-natal and postnatal sessions
- Project for Bengali Children with Hearing loss
- Diabetes project for older Somalis
- Lunch clubs
- Dance for Health for Chinese and Vietnamese older women
- Campaigning for women’s rights
- Highlight and challenge racism in provision of services
- Social Work students
- Women volunteers
- Membership organisations/forums
- Region or specific community:
- London East
- Membership Criteria if any:
- Any person in agreement with the aims and objectives of WHFS may apply in writing to the Board of Trustees for membership to the company.
- Membership Fee if any:
- Nominal sum regularly reviewed by the Board - Currently £1.
- Contact Name:
- Joyce Grandison
- Contact Address:
- The Brady Centre
192/196 Hanbury Street
London
E1 5HU - Contact Phone:
- 020 7377 8725
- Contact Mobile:
- -
- Contact Email:
- Enquiries@whfs.org.uk
- Contact Web:
- http://www.whfs.org.uk
- Funders if any:
- Incl: LBTH, THPCT, Barts and The London NHS Trust, Kings Fund, Big Lottery
- Other Information:
- While our work is mainly with women, who speak little or no English, and their families, we are not interpreters, it is about more than language, it is about enabling woman to speak for herself, to build self confidence and to be empowered.
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