The British Asian Trust has welcomed four new high-impact organisations to its portfolio, bringing to 16 the number of Trust charities transforming lives across South Asia.
Meeting vital needs in the areas of mental health, education, and child protection, the Trust’s new partners are reaching out to more than 550,000 disadvantaged people in India and Pakistan.
The Pakistan Mental Health Initiative was launched to introduce community-based care to enable mentally ill people to live and work successfully in their own towns and villages. In partnership with UK-based charity BasicNeeds and Pakistan’s Aman Foundation, the Trust has entered the mental health arena in the country following months of planning and research.
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The future looks bright for the young men graduating from the Street League Academy, writes Amber Fairrie of Creatives Against Poverty. But it hasn’t always been that way.
It was a grey and windy morning as Nafesha, Makda and myself walked through the little paths of Calthorpe Park in London to a meeting room overlooking a football pitch. But the moment we walked in to the graduation ceremony for the young men of Street League it was smiles and sunshine all round! Street League, a Trust charity partner, uses the power of football to get disadvantaged youth into work, education or training.
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