African WOMEN EMPOWERMENT FORUM

AWEF is a strategic board,  that works to empower African women in meaningful ways. We provide mechanisms to help them to engage with the wider community though a range of social interactions. The organisation provides help in integration processes, social inclusion, education and economic development.  Our primary focus is on African women refugees, women migrants and Asylum seekers.

Our endeavour is to create an environment where African women can growth in every direction possible and contribute in a meaningful way to the communities that they live in.

At AWEF, we provide opportunities for the women to learn new skills, we help them to cope and adjust to life changes. We develop tailored training which provides refugee women the opportunity to acquire entrepreneurial skills, enabling them to operate their own businesses and other self-supporting-

-activities and subsequently reduce their dependence on the state.

We believe that African women have a lot to contribute, not only to their local communities, but qualities that can contribute to effective nation building and if given the chance they will excel as world-class leaders in whatever their chosen fields.

The African Women Empowerment Forum is a refugee’s led organisation that works at grass root level with African women within communities in the UK. The organisation first started as a community based charitable organisation working in Nottingham’s local communities, now registered as a Community Interest Company and expanded to becoming a parent company supporting numerous other regions in the United Kingdom. The organisation’s work has also expanded internationally, with projects in Zimbabwe, and Tanzania.

The organisation works at the centre of the African communities, specialising in empowering women, championing appropriate solutions to support a whole range of development in many regions within the United Kingdom communities.

We provide an environment for learning through our many workshops annually.  Provide opportunities for a range of African women and young girls to gain a range of new skill sets and through this are more advantageous in moving towards their goals, whether that might be in careers, higher learning or becoming self-employed.

Some of AWEF’s  key objectives, include to promote the interests and ensure the empowerment of African women, young girls, and children in the United Kingdom, to provide facilities in the interest of social welfare, community cohesion, social integration, to empower women through education, skills development and confidence building, towards self-sufficiency.

Our objectives are also to provide opportunities for women to acquire entrepreneurial skills and  enable them to operate their own businesses and other self-supporting activities and by so doing, subsequently reduce dependence on having to seek employment, for women to be able to provide employment to other women and to reduce/avoid the malignancy of dependence.