THE DERBY BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
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Mission Statement
Our mission and aim is to provide support and confidential service to elevate effects of poverty, sickness and distress of Refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina and from the Former Yugoslavia and others, regardless of their ethnic origin and background. We believe that all refugees have the right to live in a just and equal society. We aim to achieve this by providing information, support, training and educational opportunity for all of them. Our aims and objectives are to provide practical and social support to refugees and asylum seekers from all around the world as well as those from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Former Yugoslavia, now settled in East Midlands, to provide advice services, support and a confidential information, to elevate effects of poverty and distress to Refugees and Asylum Seekers from different parts of the world, including those from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Former Yugoslavia, regardless of their ethnic origin residing in East Midlands, to equally provide independent and impartial advice and support to those mentioned above people, who are on benefits or low income, disable, elderly and vulnerable, residing in East Midlands and further development of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Community Centre as a One Stop Shop place, as an efficient service for the Refugees and Asylum Seekers from all over the world.
About This Cause
The Derby Bosnia Herzegovina Community Association (DBHCA) was initially set up to serve the needs of those Balkan after war people regardless of their ethnic origin, background, and religion. Beyond peer group psychological counselling the role was advice on benefits, English language, training and housing, outreach support for disabled and isolated including Balkan Roma, as well as organisation of cultural events and setting up of schools for children and adult. The community came together to buy and renovate derelict premises as a community centre which was some years later demolished to make way for the new inner ring road. Eventually, as negotiated with a bit help from Derby City Council, our new, purpose-built centre was built for the community to serve more than 300 Balkan’s families. Most of our Management Committee members and volunteers, were political refugees, (also retired UK professionals who help as volunteers.) Nearly all of us have backgrounds as teachers, lawyers, doctors, engineers, social workers, artists, writers. We have a huge bank of relevant of skills and experience available to us. And it’s free! In both strategic and also day to day management terms, we have people who know how to operate self critically, transparently and at a high professional level. We work a partnership between The Bosnia Herzegovina Community Association, settled in the East Midlands for more than twenty five years, and more recent migrants who have formed Derby Refugee Forum in 2002, an organisation run by and representing the needs of asylum seeker, refugees, and recent migrants, run by over 35 volunteers drawn from all-Derby’s main immigrant communities’ staff the centre on these days and offer a full range of support and community languages. We have a written partnership agreement agreement which is recognised by the Tudor trust and Reaching Communities. Most of the volunteers are refugees and some still have asylum seeker status. These tend to be political refugees who have professional backgrounds as teachers, lawyers, doctors, engineers etc in their country of origin. They give advice in community related to welfare benefits, housing, health, and immigration. We set up many workshops and some off sessions are run by the Health Authority (e.g., sexual health), JCP, WEA, Wildlife Trust, Derby College, JEM (Job search Employment Mentoring) also runs support workshops for job advice and CVs. We provide Immigration Advice Level 1 and are registered with the Office of Immigration Services Commissioner. Additional activities include haircuts, massages and ‘one off’ cultural events. ESOL and Maths classes are run by volunteers, working with local schools, including drama and horticulture projects. We have equipped and adapted our Centre and services to comply with national guidance with COVID-19 whilst successfully delivering the projects.