3M Dairy Project (Nov 02)

SPAT-C Co-ordinator, Satish Sachdeva has recently re-established contacts with the Jamaican development community, with a view to giving support and assistance to the 3M Dairy Project near Mandeville, in thebeautiful parish of Manchester, Jamaica.

The project is part of a rural poverty reduction programme aimed at creating employment at a cheese making plant owned by the village communities. The next planed phase of the project as international co-operation between SPAT-C and PfP (Projects for People, a Jamaican NGO), will involve rehabilitation of safe water drinking supplies, upgrading the farm projects as part of environmental tourism, links with the Nazareth all age school for commencing environmental education as early years education.

International donars and project partners are urgently sought. - contact SPAT-C for further infromation

Positive Negatives (Nov 02)

A black and ethnic minority media project , 'Positive Negatives', has been established with the planning, capacity-building and the resource support of SPAT-C. The project has won a bid for £80,000 from Objective 1 to carry out a feasibility for the establishment of a state of the art 'Media Centre'. This will provide dedicated training in media skills (film making, TV and radio, freelance work), to people from ethnic backgrounds to be able to access professional jobs in the industry and expose the wider community to the rich cultural heritage of the global community.

Contact Angela Baugh c/o of SPAT-C.

South Yorkshire Refugee Integration Project (June 02)

A unique and innovative project funded by the European Refugee Fund via the Home Office - The project is to run for 12 months from 1st of June 02 to 31st May 02.

The project has several distinctive but interlinking facets, designed to create a holistic approach to the training and education, personal development, employability and the health well-being of those in the city of Sheffield, and the wider South Yorkshire sub-region) who are bonifide refugees. The target group are refugees from places such as Somalia , Iran, Iraq, Turkey (Kurds), and smaller numbers from places such as Eastern Europe, Afghanistan and Columbia.

Training & Services available under this project are :

• Training & Education - Customised training provision at NVQ 1 to 4 levels, for the members of the South Yorkshire refugee community, aimed at aiding and improving their employability in the labour market
• Professional Development - Our project undertakes a range of services to cater to the unmet needs of those who have found a refuge in this country, albeit without the benefit of dedicated funding for most part. These include English as a Second Language, sign-posting for those having difficulties in the allocation of housing, cultural activities and social recreation, and sign-posting for those in need of health-care, transnational and interpretation service, and work with young children and parents to enhance the educational attainment of young people in the school.
• Health-care and psychological services - Clients form a traumatised background as a result of having been caught up in civil strife in their country of origin and suffering personal repression. In this respect the project will organise activities to benefit upto 60 clients.
• A personal mentor service for 30 clients requiring mentor / confidant / translation and interpretation service during hospital visits for ailments such as kidney and liver disorders (many very young people are subject to this particular ailment), pregnancy and genealogical complications and some of those which need major surgery for injuries sustained in the country of origin.
• A health promotion training volunteer scheme to provide health promotion and advice service for refugee women. This entails, one course for two month duration (part-time) for 10 volunteers, who in turn will be able to service a case-load of 60 clients per year.
• 'Arts for women project' and 'Refugee cultural development project'
  These seek to encourage and promote the immense cultural balance that the refugee communities bring from their home-lands. Such communities isolated, without having the wherewithal or the resources to access mainstream culture, or even use their own culture for their personal fulfilment. The project provides positive avenues for this to happen, through promotion of artistic groups, for instance helping young Iranians to set-up a musical band and employ their talents both to earn an income and to entertain and educate the wider community in multiculturalism and the cultural heritage of distant lands.
  

If you are interested in any in any of the above services or have clients who could benefit from the abovem then please call SPAT-C on 0114 2756815 to arrange a visit.