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Covid-19 Support

Since the Coronavirus pandemic broke out, volunteers from the Universal Church of Jesus Christ (UCJC) mobilised themselves to proactively provide emergency support to socially isolated and vulnerable elderly people. The group has set up an emergency support group to help refugee elderly people from the African Community with health problems affected by the coronavirus outbreak. From Mid-March 2020 onwards until October 2020, the group has been directly helping these elderly women from the wide city of Birmingham, Dudley, Walsall, Wolverhampton and Sandwell affected by coronavirus poverty. The group has been delivering and continues to do so, by giving access to food, toiletries, basic necessities, etc. to help elderly people in isolation.

This project was funded by:

Our sincerest gratitude goes to the National Lottery Community Fund’s Coronavirus Resilience Fund. Without your financial assistance, this emergency appeal to support the most vulnerable people in our community would not take place. Your kind support has been detrimental during this difficult time for the elderly refugees from the Black country:

If we weren’t able to provide this support, we would have assisted to catastrophic situations whereby vulnerable elderly people from the refugee community would not have access to nutritious food, sanitary products and get their medications delivered to them.

This grant has been a solution to numerous issues that our organisation has supported the elderly people (food supplies, buy and send food to them, find first necessity hygiene products for them and supply these to them, etc) considering their access to shops is currently limited by their mobility, their avoidance of public transport as well as their weak physical ability to line up in long queues in front of supermarkets early morning for long time to purchase foodstuffs.

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