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AWEMA

AWEMA’s principal objective is to promote equality and diversity for the benefit of the public. We have made the following four Wales-wide priorities for our work:

i. Tackling economic inactivity, especially amongst women. We will do this through capacity building, education programmes and the development of social enterprises where the business focus will be on serving the needs of community groups.

ii. Tackling underachievement with young people and raising their skills levels. We will take an innovative approach using dance, drama and the spoken word in SLAM poetry as some of the tools by which young people’s creative potential is unleashed.

iii. Raising and recognising the skills levels of migrant workers. It is our aim to continue to engage with and organise newly arrived economic migrants so that their language and pastoral needs are met soon after their arrival.

iv. Multi-cultural community cohesion and integration. We are working towards securing capital funding to establish our multi-cultural women’s community centre in Cardiff and a multi-cultural community centre in Swansea. Both centres will seek to and engage with all the mainstream service providers to meet the diverse community needs of Wales’ two principal cities.

Additional to our Wales-wide work, AWEMA works with its sister charity Lynk Reach based in London. The main focus of our work with Lynk Reach is to engage young people and help them break down barriers that they face, whilst simultaneously build bridges with young people from different cultural, ethnic and religions backgrounds.