The best thing in life is free, join us for the IT training sessions! As part of the Filipino Women’s Association UK (FWA-UK)’s new Outreach project, “A Helping Hand to the Elderly and the Vulnerable in Newham, London“, funded by the National Lottery, we are planning to conduct multiple computer skills workshops for the digitally excluded elderly in Newham, London. Please complete the …
Category: Outreach
A Helping Hand to the Elderly (65+) and the Vulnerable in Newham, London – An FWA-UK Project
– by Jeannette Thomson, Fundraising Committee Chairman GOOD NEWS!! On 12 January 2022, FWA-UK was recently awarded a grant from National Lottery Awards for All (A4A) for one of our projects called, ‘A Helping Hand to the Elderly (65+) and the Vulnerable in Newham, London.’ FWA-UK will run computer skills workshops for digitally excluded elderly, in Newham, London, who are …
Volunteer Required: Project Manager
Our charity organisation is seeking to have a Volunteer Project Manager for 3 – 5 hours per week. The Project Manager will be in charge of assisting our Outreach Committee Chairman in organising our ‘A Helping Hand to the Elderly and the Vulnerable in Newham, London.’ Initiative. This initiative involves five different projects: Computer Skills Workshops for the Digitally Excluded Elderly Support the Elderly …
Philippines Typhoon Appeal
We at the FWA-UK would like to do our part in collaborating with government and non-governmental organizations in the Philippines by sending financial aid to help and support our countrymen who have been greatly affected by these calamities.
Support the Senior Citizens of the Community activity, 10 March 2018
The Filipino Women’s Association-UK (FWA-UK) organised a mini gathering of friends coming from the young and not so young generation to assist the Support the Senior Citizens of the Community project. This afternoon tea was held at the Royal Festival Hall on a cloudy, windy Saturday the 10th of March 2018 . The friends of the FWA-UK occupied a corner table in the bar area of Skylon …
Services for the Senior Citizens of the FWA-UK and the Community – A Special Local Project
Launched in November 2015, this local project strives to serve the needs of the first generation of Filipino migrants to the United Kingdom who arrived during the late 1960s and peaked in the 1970s. They were mostly economic migrants and were generally employed in the service industries, catering and hospitality, healthcare and domestic services. Their ages ranged from 18-30 years …
FWA-UK Support the Senior Citizens of the Community Project
INTRODUCTION / BACKGROUND The first generation of Filipino migrants to the United Kingdom arrived during the late 1960s and peaked in the 1970s. They were mostly economic migrants and were generally employed in the service industries namely, catering and hospitality, healthcare and domestic services. Their ages ranged from 18 – 30 years. This first generation are now senior citizens and …