MISSION STATEMENT

The African Community Council for the Regions exists to create and maintain an efficient and effective user-friendly service that aims to alleviate and improve ill-health and economic deprivation, remove the barriers to social, educational and vocational achievement, and combat the disadvantages, discrimination, unemployment, hardship and distress of African individuals and Communities.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The ACCR is an umbrella organisation for all African people and their communities in the West Midlands region. The Charity was established in October 2000, in response to the absence of culturally sensitive services for African Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Immigrants living in the region.

The Charity will help to improve the quality of life for African people living in the West Midlands region, principally by addressing health needs and advancing health education and awareness. Through self-help projects, seminars, education and training, the Charity will alleviate poverty and socio-economic deprivation, and provide people with appropriate opportunities for entry into the labour market. The ACCR will also help to create, support, maintain and develop projects and initiatives which allow aspiring African individuals or groups to set up their own businesses or income-generating projects.

The Charity works in partnership with local, national and international African groups. It facilitates and supports collective devlopment whilst at the same time encouraging each African organisation and/or individual to promote their own particular culture and skills.

Our Core Values are at the top of every page of this website.

Our Work

Kushinga: This project is funded to support African carers The project activities include Training 6 Multi lingual Volunteers, support social cultural and spiritual network. Signpost carers to appropriate services, develop carers’ skills in stress management health and safety.

Ziba-Ufa Project (Closing the Gap): This project is a one year project. The main aim of the project is to research into the journey and experiences as well as exploring positive angle of freedom and equality of African people from the time of slavery to the present through extensive research into the history connected to African slavery (1619 - 1807) and its impact on the abolition of slavery and the positive contribution inform of freedom equality and multiculturalism on African communities in Birmingham.

African Community Links Projects: - This project provides services to individuals such as advice & information on Health, Education, Skill Training and access to mainstream benefits, while the community organizations received capacity building support in terms of fund raising and governance. The immediate and ultimate beneficiaries of this project includes African community organizations and individual African people living in the West Midlands

The African Older People’s Befriending, Advice and Information Service: The activities of the project are to provide support for the elderly people aged 55 years of age and over, the project also assists in reducing isolation, stress as well as to support and empowering them.

African Youth Project: During the year the project arranged several social activities for young African youth in community centres, and hostels across the region. The project provided dictionaries and other learning games like scrabbles, board games, weight training materials at their hostels and community centres.

The Inter-Generation Project: This one year project included activities such as music and folk dance as form of tackling anti social behaviour among young African people.

Supporting People: ACCR is funded to provide a floating support to African refugees in Sandwell Borough Council