Freedom Christian Church
Charity registration number: 1204149
HIV/AIDS Programme
We work with the African and other minority communities in the UK by promoting sexual health:
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We have discovered that proper understanding of one’s culture has impact on service delivery, and this can enhance services for communities.
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There are issues such as spirituality, taboo, language, and perception of life within a particular culture context.
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Our church provides support services to Africans and people from minority backgrounds in the UK with HIV/AIDS by
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Creating the right environment in a way of reassuring clients, not only about confidentiality, but also that the service is non-discriminatory,
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Giving clients free treatments information which updates them on the latest developments in HIV/AIDS treatments. We also give them feedback from major conferences,
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We give clients a full assurance that their employment, education, immigration status will not be affected because they are HIV/AIDS positive.
Mental Wellbeing
In this project we empower people to enhance their abilities to understand the value of their emotions and use them to move their life forward in positive directions and make contributions to their communities.
Our mental wellbeing projects provide personal self-awareness and competencies which enhance the self-esteem and interpersonal skills of our service users. Our training helps in a way of protecting them against potential risks such as issues of social disadvantage, family disruption and other unforeseen contingencies or adversities in life.
We concentrate on early intervention in childhood and young adults. We believe that early intervention in a child’s life can help reduce physical and mental health problems and prevent emotional and social problems being passed from one generation to the next. This intervention prevents children and adolescents with difficult or behavioural problems from becoming dropouts in their education or becoming teenage parents or experiencing relationship problems during their adult lives. But for those who are already teenage parents, we provide child protection awareness and positive parenting skills. This reduces the number of children subject to child protection plans or being removed from their families and placed in the care system.
For these children and young adults, there is also an increased chance of them developing criminal behaviours and many of them resort to substance misuse which in many cases resort to poor mental health.
This project is specifically designed to support children and young adults who may be dealing with emotional, social, and mental wellbeing problems.
The head of this project is Mrs Maria Afrane-Twum who is a Registered Nurse. She holds a Diploma in Psychiatry Nursing, BSc in Nursing and MPH. She is part of our team which is realising the vision of this ministry through social action. Her mission is to see lives, relationships, and communities transformed.
Contact: 0121 530 1975
Literacy Education
The aim of our literacy programme is to help people who have not been opportune to receive formal education, to learn how to read and write the English language and their own vernacular.
We work hand in hand with a charity to provide literacy education to refugees who came into the UK from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, and other countries. Funding has always been a problem for this project, but we hope to provide this programme to many refugees as soon as finance in made available.