About Us

Objectives of the Charity

The Afghanistan and Central Asian Objectives are to:

▪ Advance education, health, and quality of life of Afghan and Central Asian communities in the United Kingdom.
▪ Provide Life skills & Citizenship classes.
▪ Run Language and other educational classes.
▪ Empower the community through enterprise.
▪ Raise awareness of general public about Afghanistan and the Central Asian culture, history and their contribution to British
culture through educational and cultural activities.
▪ Alleviate poverty, improve health, isolation and distress.
▪ Advance education, preserve and protect the family unity.
▪ Promote the human rights of all people, particularly the marginalised, women and children.
▪ Help refugees, asylum seekers and victims of human rights abuses through education of our service users and the wider
public using creative, informal events, formal seminars and training workshops.
▪ Provide humanitarian and other essential aid to those in need in Afghanistan
▪ Relieve poverty, sickness, distress and preserve and protect the good health of people in Afghanistan and the Asian
community.
▪ Advance Human rights by educating the public about human rights and human rights abuses and improving literacy of the people in Afghanistan.

Our Priorities

The Afghanistan and Central Asian Association aims to be a leader in the support, development and integration of immigrant communities; in particular supporting refugees and asylum seekers from Afghanistan and Central Asia.

Our Priorities:

1 . Create more educational opportunities for deprived people, Offer courses in business and employment, Hold job search
sessions, Expand English and Citizenship classes, Organise conferences and seminars on social policy, Arrange sporting activities for different age-groups, Deliver IT training courses, Provide one-to-one sessions for people who need help, Organise drama, art and music courses for young people, Run workshops in Business and Enterprise.

2. Provide Life skills & Citizenship classes. Run Language and other educational classes. Empower the community through enterprise. Raise awareness of general public about Afghanistan and Central Asian culture, history and their contribution to British culture through educational and cultural activities. Alleviate poverty, improve health, isolation and distress. Advance education, preserve and protect the family unity.

3. Promote the human rights of all people, particularly marginalised women and children. Help refugees, asylum seekers and victims of human rights abuses through education of our service users and the wider public using creative, informal events, formal seminars and training workshops. We also provide humanitarian and other essential aid to those in need in Afghanistan to relieve poverty, sickness, distress and preserve and protect the good health of people in Afghanistan and Central Asian Association.

Since 2003 we have achieved dramatic success in meeting the demands of our community by:

Assisting individuals in distress who have recently arrived in the UK .
Promoting the cause of human rights and providing support to victims of war and human rights abuses.
Expanding English language classes.
Supporting children and youths by providing supplementary education at the weekends.
Supporting and developing individuals seeking to become employed or self employed.
Helping refugees and asylum seekers to understand the values of Democracy in UK.
The Afghanistan and Central Asian Association want to motivate and raise awareness by involving the community in running and managing the organisation.

We want to bring people and groups together from a diverse range of faiths, in particular Refugees and people with no faith, in our wider work.

Our aims:

1. Educate and empower all our participants, particularly women and children, to learn more about where they come from using activities based on their heritage nations, in order to make children proud and better informed about their backgrounds.

2. Raise awareness of international development by adapting existing resources and materials to inform, engage and train participants - particularly our women’s classes – enabling them to share their knowledge more widely.

3. Gain and use new techniques and skills to train the people with whom we engage so that they are aware and proud of their heritage nations.

4. Teach modern presentation and communication skills to empower and build the skills of our participants.

The organisation has changed its name and objectives

In the light of increasing demands from other Asian and local residents; a name which allows us to support other communities meeting their needs.

We decided to change the name of our organisation to bring other people together to make decisions, learn from each other and share our experiences. We are delighted with the establishment of the new name and new objectives, so that people of Afghanistan, Asian and local residents can work together and share mutual understanding.

The Afghanistan & Central Asian Association hopes our support will empower new arrival and refugees to have access in employment, business, social, cultural and educational opportunities available here in UK.

The Afghanistan & Central Asian Association which was known as “Afghan Community Organisation of London” made a great contribution in bringing different community together but due to high demand from BME we decided to change the objectives and expanded it’s service to integrate more people and communities from the multi-cultural society of Great Britain.

The encouragement, support and feedback of the people and positive reaction from the community make us more active and determined to widen the help we offer to our participants and we feel the new name of the organisation reflects this.

The new name and objectives will also create confidence among others to feel free join our Management Committee, attend our events and take active part in our activities.

Our wider remits in order to meet the needs of different communities will be:

Create educational opportunities for more deprived people in Greater London.
Organise courses in business skills for different communities
Improve employment opportunities of our beneficiaries,
Create job searches
Increase English language classes
Increase Citizenship training courses
Arrange conferences and seminars
Organise sporting activities for everybody
Deliver IT training courses
Provide one-to-one sessions
Set up drama, art and music courses for young people And
Provide workshops in Community empowerment, Business and Enterprise.

The Afghanistan and Central Asian Association hope to be a leader in support, development and integration of immigrant communities, and in particular supporting refugees and asylum seekers.
Furthermore, our organisation since 2003 has achieved a dramatic success in meeting the demands of our clients in:

Assisting new arrivals who are in sickness and distress.
Promoting the cause of human rights and providing support to victims of human rights abuses.
Promoting English language classes for Muslim women.
Supporting youth by providing supplementary and after school education opportunities.
Supporting and developing individuals seeking to become employed or self-employed.
Helping refugees and asylum seekers to understand British life.

Motivating and raising awareness among our service users by involving them in our organisation activities and making decision.

Bringing people and groups together from diverse faiths, in particular Muslims and people with no faith, in our wider work.

Our Mission:

1. Support refugee and Asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Asian and local residents
2. Tackle the challenges refugees and asylum seekers face from Afghanistan.
3. Educate and empower all our participants, particularly women and children, to learn more about British culture,
4. Raise awareness, engage and train participants - particularly young people to share their knowledge and difficulties.
5. Increase understanding of refugees how to apply or access employment or set up small business
6. Develop skills in communication
7. Enhance networking opportunities
8. Realise organisation's full potential
9. Establish more links with mainstream services