Multi Faith Anti Poverty Project: Phase 2 begins September 2010
We are asking for volunteers to become part of the second phase of the MAPP anti-poverty campaigning project linking African and Arab christians and muslims. The first phase was a great success with over 100 people attending the first 3 workshops on Poverty & Social Exclusion in March, on Employment and Education in April and on Housing in May at Hillhead High School and at the STUC, Woodlands Rd. Jointly organised by Dar al Falaah and Jubilee Social Centre - we heard Christian and Muslim women's and mens' voices on poverty alleviation and the role faith plays in combatting injustice and inequality. The workshops also highlighted the need for better access to employment, housing and eduation equal opportunities - and how discrimination compunds the poverty our communities face.
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The 1st MAPP project was managed by Arabic educational charity Dar Al Falaah jointly with the A&CN and two A&CN affliliates the REMI Church and Glasgow Jubilee Social Centre and was funded by FISCAF. We woudl like to thank in particular Rev Michael Angley Ogwuche, Imam Mustaqeem Shah, Mr Akhter Khan, Dr Abdelkader Kabaeti and his DAF volunteer team of Nashwan, Abdul, Alaa who coordinated the project.
We are still looking for new volunteers to joint he next set of workshops to be jointly organised with the Glasgow Central and West Integration Network; and with the nationally-based Ethnic Minority Civic Congress. This will need your commitment to visit mosques and churches; to share concepts from our religion that guide us in fighting poverty and social injustice. We will train volunteers to help organise an anti-poverty conference and workshops during Autumn 2010. We hope you will become anti-poverty champions within your communities. download Phase 2 full report here
Had your asylum case refused? Worried about being detained by the Home Office? Scared of being deported?
Come and find out how to organise your anti-deportation campaign
Come to our monthly anti-deportation classes
the first Saturday of every month.
Organised by UNIITY and supported by NCADC (National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns)
Next workshop: SATURDAY
11am-4pm
At the Kinning Park Complex, on Cornwall Street, off Paisley Road West, opposite Kinning Park Underground station or bus 121, 54, 56 & 9
These classes, based on similar workshops run by the National Coalition for Anti-Deportation Campaigns, will last all day and will give an introduction to the UK asylum system and how you can do more to help your asylum case. Please bring your lunch
We will run these anti-deportation classes every month on the first Saturday of the month at the Kinning Park complex. Please tell anyone you think might be interested.
January 2009 Financial Appeal by Unity Center Glasgow
A BIG, brand new, New Year, Unity financial appeal has been lunched to ask people to make a donation to help keep the Unity centre open. It’s that time of year again when we ask people to make a donation to help us keep the Unity Centre open.
Run completely by volunteers, the Unity Centre is totally dependent on donations from friends and supporters. We do not get funding from any other source.
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Biniam Asmelesh was not removed to Italy!
Lawyers in Scotland managed to stop the flight. We spoke to Biniam in Campsfield this morning. He asked us to thank everyone who sent faxes and emails on his behalf. We hope to see Biniam re-unitied with Lula and his children in the near future.
Biniam Asmelash is a 30 year old Eritrean man who was detained in Glasgow early june. He has been given Third Country removal directions for early on Monday morning despite his wife and three children are still living in Glasgow.
Biniam is a Pentecostal Christian and fled Eritrea in 2004 because the Pentecostal Christian church is not one of the four registered religions tolerated by the Eritrean government. Biniam married his wife Lula in Eritrea in 2003 while he was still in the army.