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Support for a Better Future
SHAKA Services is a a specialist sexual health organisation based in South London; a limited company set up in 2003 and became a charity in 2004. We aim to promote better sexual health awareness through training, education and advice to all sections of the Black community. SHAKA Services provides high quality, culturally appropriate care and support services and advice on a range of issues including sexual health, HIV treatment, emotional support, welfare rights, social care, housing and immigration. SHAKA Services also provides training and consultancy to agencies across the country to help develop initiatives targeted at black populations in relation to HIV/AIDS/sexual health. We aim to influence public policy by conducting original research into issues related to HIV/AIDS/sexual health and black and minority ethnic communities.
Aims and Objectives To provide support to the African, Asian and Caribbean communities in Britain who are living with or affected by HIV/AIDS. To improve access to sexual health services and to promote the general well being of the target population. To provide culturally and linguistically appropriate HIV/AIDS prevention and sexual health services to the ethnic communities, the general public, voluntary and statutory organisations. The staff of SHAKA provide support and advice on: sexual health, HIV treatment advice, peer support, emotional support and counselling, welfare rights, community care, social work and immigration advice and services.
Vision
To promote equality of access to general and specialist health care for the Black, Minority, Ethnic and Refugee (BMER) communities.
Mission
To challenge discrimination, prejudices and stigma facing (BMER) communities living with or affected by HIV/AIDS. SHAKA SERVICES have eight main services streams; four of which are free services and the remaining four are fee paying for income generation to further the charitable objectives of the organisation. The ranges of services that the organisation currently delivers are as follows:
Charitable work • Health and Social care providing:
Emotional Support, Generalist Advice and Casework on Housing, Welfare, Community Care, Human Right and Immigration issues for those living with or affected by HIV/AIDS who are in receipt of NASS support and considered destitute
• Health Prevention
A Primary Prevention Service Targeting the BMER communities with particular emphasis on Young Black People
• Training/Workshops
We provide sexual health training for BMER community along with the sale of health promotion materials e.g. safer sex packs containing condoms with instructions, information on local GUM clinics, information booklets on sexual health from a culturally aware perspective etc
• News line/ online news line
Fee/earned income work
• Immigration
SHAKA Services provides specialist Immigration services • Training room rental
SHAKA Services provides fully training facilities for conferences, workshops, meetings etc.
• Cultural competency training
SHAKA Services provides culturally specific Training Programmes for voluntary and statutory organisations working with BMER.
• Social work student placement
SHAKA Services provides placement for students social workers as part of their course from different universities.
Shaka Services also undertakes a significant amount of work in partnership with young people particularly addressing issues around safer sex and responsible intimate relationships.
SHAKA Services offers multilingual translations for a number of African languages. These include: Swahili, French, Shaona (Zimbabwe) and Luganda (Ugandan dialect) to English or vice versa.
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