 Central Africa Refugee Link, acronymed Carelink is a refugee organisation that exists to support refugees from Central Africa within the west Midland region. The focus of Care Link is to strengthen and develop refugees’ initiatives locally focusing around 4 core areas of work: General Support, Mental Health, Parenting & Saturday Home Work Support Club. |
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The Saturday Homework Club Project |
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Written by Carelink Trustees
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Background
This project provides high quality learning resources for parents to borrow and use at home with their children. The aim is to increase parents' involvement in their children's learning, and to support improvement in the children's attainment at school, in an area where there is little spare money for families to spend on educational resources.
What is going on
The Saturday Homework Club is open twice a month on Saturdays. Computer software, games, puzzles, construction kits, science activities, English, Math and books are provided. The organization employs three local parents volunteers (one of whom described this as their first "real job") to run the club. The resources are suitable for a wide age group, from babies to adults, with the most popular items being family board games. Science activities come a close second, and there is sometimes a waiting list for them: fathers tend to be particularly keen to borrow this kind of 'hands on' kit.
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Carelink specialises in services for adult and young people refugees from French speaking countries living in west Midlands with support needs mainly from the central Africa area. Our principal activity is the provision of high quality community based support services for people with a broad spectrum of support needs. We believe that our commitment to pursuing excellence is the best way of achieving our aim of offering ‘best value’ to the purchasers and users of our services. |
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Care Link is an organisation that was formed in on 16th October 2004. Our primary function is to support the refugee community from Central Africa living in West Midlands (Rwanda, Burundi, D R Congo, Congo Brazzaville, Central African Republic) and offer a number of services to the community. |
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The idea of starting a charity under Care Link name was to let refugees from the African French speaking countries express themselves on different issues. Even though the issue at stake was health, members who first met to discuss the idea geared the subject towards a more specific object (i.e. barriers to integration in the host country).
