African Women's Welfare Group is a Pan African grass roots organisation founded in 1989 and become a registered charity - charity no. 1023821 - in 1992
Our main purpose is to work with partners in the UK to create opportunities for migrant and refugee women and empower them to fulfil their potentials.
AWWG was in fact created in response to the needs of newly arrived African women, asylum seekers and refugees.
Since AWWG was set up, our beneficiaries have widespread and new client groups have emerged.
As the newly arrived became settled, their needs changed. Once they settled, an ageing population emerged within this group coupled with older relatives who joined settled members in the UK leading to a new category of clients: older women with their own unique needs.
As children of those settled became teenagers and young adults, they faced their own challenges.
Today, AWWG provides services to meet the need of all 4 different client groups:
- newly arrived African refugee women & asylum seekers
- settled African migrant women
- elderly African women
- young African women & girls
In response to their different needs, AWWG provides a number of services whose main feature is a holistic vision of the whole women community. Despite each group has its own distinctive needs, AWWG services are shaped in order to promote intergenerational communication and to avoid intergenerational clash.
