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News from the British Pakistani Community
Mosaic
Could you mentor and inspire students in Slough? If so Mosaic is looking for you to sign up to their exciting new outreach at secondary school mentoring! This is a vital part of their national programme, which is rewarding for both mentors and the students alike; the relationships made can be life changing. The launch session for the Slough districts is to take place on Thursday 29th November 2-5pm. For more information and to sign up please contact: punam.kharbanda@bitc.org.uk
Website: www.mosaicnetwork.co.uk
Forward Thinking Launches its first Youth leadership programme
Since 2004 Forward Thinking has worked with Muslim communities both from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds. FT has found that young people from these communities often suffer alienation and other social challenges. As a result of these findings Forward Thinking has looked at ways of addressing these negatives. The result is The Rationale for Youth Leadership Programme - the aim of which is to identify young leaders over the age of 18 and empower them to bring change from within their communities with leadership courses, media training and helping them access existing networks in the community.
Website details: www.forwardthinking.org
Engage Exhibition
This is the first national exhibition on Islamophobia was launched at the Jubilee Rooms House of Commons this month; the key note speaker was Engage Trustee Sir Iqbal Sacranie, further speakers included MPs Sadiq Khan, Jack Straw and Simon Hughes. All reiterated the importance of media awareness and the need for ongoing political engagement from within the community to ensure these issues remain a priority within government.
Institute of Islamic Strategic & Socio-Political Affairs
IISA is a-soon to be launched-think-tank & an intellectual forum for addressing the current and future dynamics of the Islamic-world and its interaction with the western civilisation. Based in London, IISA will create trans-Islamic and global reach with branches in major capitals of the Islamic and western world. As a non-profit, independent and academic organisation; IISA seeks to establish a platform where Islamic-world's dynamics, trends, issue, problems or crises are analysed within the Islamic-world and by working on local models and realities and not against any external standards or perceptions.
IISA is currently looking for Research interns in London with:
- An under-graduate or post-graduate degree in international relations or a similar subject
- Self-motivated, flexible and reliable
- Up to 20 hours a week
How to apply:
Please send your CV and cover letter to the following email addresses:
info@iisa.org.uk usama.butt@iisa.org.uk
Website details:http://www.iisa.org.uk/
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UNICEF: Birth in a Tent
The Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) programme is a government-run programme, supported by UNICEF, which provides essential care to women during pregnancy and birth and to both mother and child in the first weeks of life. Here in Thatta, in the Sindh province of Pakistan three tented MNCH centres have been set up to provide these essential services to those who have fled the flooding and are living in the surrounding camps.
Many women, however, are either unaware of these services or are unable to make the journey to the tented MNCH centres. To extend the reach of these services UNICEF is supporting mobile outreach teams. Each team includes one doctor, a female health worker and a community midwife. They seek out women who are pregnant or have recently given birth and provide them with essential care. For more information on this essential programme please see the website below:
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/pakistan_56575.html
FCO: Project Pakistan
The Foreign and Commonwealth office works towards achieving its objectives and strategic priorities through the funding of a number of programmes, as well as through the traditional use of diplomacy.
Through these different programmes, the British High Commission is supporting projects in several priority areas for Pakistan and welcomes project proposals.
If you would like to submit a proposal please contact the FCO directly with a brief description of the project to project.enquiries@fco.gov.uk .
http://ukinpakistan.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/working-with-pakistan/projectsnew/
UK Aid:
Justine Greening DFID Secretary of State has publicly reiterated HMG's commitment to ensure transparency is in place, and being critical to improving the effectiveness and value for money of aid. Making information about aid spending easier to access, understand and use means that UK taxpayers and citizens in poor countries can hold DFID and recipient governments to account for using aid money wisely.
Transparency creates better feedback from beneficiaries to donors and taxpayers, and helps us understand what works and what doesn't. It also helps reduce waste and the opportunities for fraud and corruption.
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