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Welcome to CESI homepage
Community Empowerment and Support Initiatives (CESI) is a charitable organisation established in 2006 in response to concerns raised by Nepalese Community living within the London Borough of Greenwich.
Initiated with funding support from Greenwich Council?s Community Support Programme CESI concentrates on addressing the following needs of the local community:
Information (sign posting to housing, social services, health, education, benefit and employment and specific information for people when they are first settling in the country)
Older People Project - to address the needs of older people in the community
Young People - integration projects, education, skill development or leisure activities.
Women?s Project ? skills development
Support to people around reduction of isolation and overcoming language barriers and increase access to mainstream services.
Encourage and support individuals to take part in Council and other voluntary organisations consultations influencing service development and delivery.
Since our inception, we have worked with more than a thousand members of the Nepalese community, volunteer organisation associated with BME Forum, Greenwich Council For Racial Equality (GCRE), Greenwich Action for Voluntary Services (GAVS), Greenwich Local Labour and Business (GLLAB) and volunteers.
We have completed three successful years in empowering and supporting the Nepalese community in Greenwich Borough. In this website you will find more information about our activities in the past and present. Please feel free to contact us if you have any suggestion, ideas and assistance to CESI.
Our mission
Support for the development of capacity and skills for the Nepalese community; to be better able to identify and help meet their needs and to integrate more fully in local community and to share best practice with other communities.
CESI aims to achieve this by providing information, advice, signposting and implementing community development projects to enable the community to access a wide range of services available by statutory and voluntary service providers at different levels.
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