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CENTRE FOR ARMENIAN INFORMATION AND ADVICE
World Refugee Day 20th June
During refugee week CAIA was mentioned in the following article on the People's Health Trust Website. https://www.peopleshealthtrust.org.uk/news/news-stories/refugee-week-2020
Announcement
We are temporarily expanding our free food distribution.In addition to helping vulnerable older people, carers, and people with disabilities, CAIA is now able to offer free food and groceries from 2 July - 6 August 2020. Our offer will stop after this...
Supporting the most vulnerable
Thank you to everyone who has helped deliver food supplies every week since the end of March 2020 from CAIA's Hayashen Centreto 50+ vulnerable people.Thank you to The Felix Project, City Harvest London and Ealing Foodbank for the supplies.Thank you also...
Getting ready to open our doors
During the Covid 19 pandemic lockdown the CAIA took the opportunity to decorate the Monte Melkonian Hall in Hayashen to ensure the highest hygiene standards to welcome back our youth, elderly, women and children to our activities.
Ealing Advice Forum
Great to see and hear so many advice groups, statutory agencies and local decision makers contributing during Ealing Advice Forum’s first ever online meeting on 13 May. The EAF has been administered by the CAIA for over 10 years. The mission of the EAF is...
Cash award for charity supporting for vulnerable people in London’s Armenian community
News Release City of London Corporation 14 May 2020 A charity in Ealing has received a large cash boost to provide key advice and support services to the Armenian community in London. City Bridge Trust, the City of London...
Parents & Toddlers Group
Great to see CAIA's Parents & Toddlers Group operating regularly once a week. For more information how Parents & under 5's can join, please write to info@caia.org.uk
Enjoyable Learning Resources from Hayashen Youth Club
During this period of isolation, we publish a list of children's websites circulating on the Internet in Western Armenian, where parents and children alike can enjoy transcripts and audio recordings. If you cannot read Armenian, press translate at the end...
Message from the CAIA CEO
Dear FriendAs COVID-19 continues to spread, the future has never felt so unpredictable. These are challenging times for us all, and we hope you’re in good spirits and health!Right now, CAIA is doing everything possible to sustain daily operations and...
CAIA Strategic Review
After 30 years of delivering highly-regarded, vital programmes in the Armenian community, we felt it was time to gain more insight into our work. We knew we were making a difference, but we wanted more data on our impact. Was it possible to reach more Armenians than before? Did our programmes meet the needs of recently arriving Armenians as well as second and third generations?
We are deeply grateful to the Lloyds Foundation for funding in 2018/2019 to explore these questions and many more. Over the last year, this funding paid for staff time as well as an external consultant to help us with this work. We carried out a series of focus groups, surveys and interviews with community members and beneficiaries across London. Staff members and Trustees came together in mid-2018 to explore this research and develop strategic priorities for the next three years. As a result, the Trustees were able to produce a new 3 year Strategic Plan that will help us grow and achieve more in the years to come. Our plan is a public document stating our commitment to the community, so we are delighted to share it here in English and Western Armenian.
(The Western Armenian version has been kindly translated by Programme of Armenian Studies | Հայագիտական Ուսմանց Ծրագիր)
Emotional Wellbeing Support
This exciting new project is funded by People’s Health Trust using money raised through The Health Lottery in London West. The project aims to provide a safe, secure and culturally familiar environment for Armenians and those associated with them to share their personal experiences and examine the relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviour patterns. There is also the opportunity to benefit from a limited amount of 1:1 sessions.
UK Armenians & WW1
UK Armenians and WW1 is a 2-year project funded by Heritage Lottery Fund. The aim was to create an audio-visual archive of the experiences of the Armenian community in the UK during WW1. A number of interviews were conducted with project contributors who kindly shared their own personal family stories.
Testimonies of War, a short documentary was also produced based on these interviews. Further research was also carried out in relation to Armenian Soldiers, Doctors, Refugees and other community members. These formed the basis of multiple exhibitions.
The Dark Years in Cartoons
See a selection of post-Soviet cartoons from Armenia, picked by our volunteer Jivan Cheterian
Ատամհատիկ | Atamhatik
Story of one tooth…
Images of Ottoman Empire from the Pierre de Gigord Collection
See a selection of some fascinating photographs here…