Community advice Link is charitable organisation which was established in April 2004 by members of the African Community in Milton Keynes. The organisation was registered in United Kingdom as a charity in August 2005.
The aim of the organisation on one hand is to address issues concerning social exclusion, alienation, cultural diversity, tolerance, and integration among the African Community in UK from local to national level. We provide advice and advocacy in employment, education, health, housing, racial discrimination, racist crimes and criminal justice system. On the other hand Community Advice link actively promote democracy, good governance, the rule of law, and human rights in Somalia, Djibouti, Kenya and Ethiopia. We believe education and strengthening the productive sectors (Health, water supply, agriculture and irrigation and livestock,) in the rural areas are the most effective ways of combating poverty, war and disease.
Mission statement
Our mission is to empower and enable the African community to represent themselves in all levels of decision making that affect their lives.
Objectives
(i) The relief of poverty hardship and distress, the advancement of education and the preservation and protection of good health among those seeking asylum or who have been granted refugee status within the UK by such exclusively charitable means as the trustees shall from time to time determine.
(ii) The advancement of education of pupils at primary and secondary schools in Somalia, Djibouti, Eastern Ethiopia and Northeastern Kenya by the provision of such material or financial assistance as the trustees shall from time to time determine.
(iii) To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Milton Keynes and surrounding areas by associating together local authorities, voluntary bodies and said inhabitants in common effort to advance education, reduce poverty hardship and distress and provide facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation, with the object of improving the conditions of life of said inhabitants.