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Services

Advocacy Link

Advocacy Link is a WHFS social enterprise begun in 2009 to provide an immediate advocacy service for any agency across the borough and in neighbouring boroughs. The bilingual advocates are a trained and experienced team who mainly live locally and consequently have an understanding of the health, cultural and social needs of their communities. The languages provided are:

Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Somali, Swahili, Turkish and Vietnamese.

Bilingual health advocates provide language support and work to educate and empower their clients through health advice, health education sessions such as management of long term conditions, screening, ante natal and sexual health. The advocates are also professionally trained in research techniques, including one to one interviewing, focus groups, transcription and translation.

To find out more about the service or to make a booking please contact:

Nurun Ahmed - Advocacy Link Manager
020 7377 8725
nuruna@whfs.org.uk

Bilingual Advocacy Team

Nimo Mohamed – Advocacy Manager
Nurun Ahmed - Advocacy Link Manager
My Diep – Chinese/Vietnamese Advocate
Rita Gupta – Bengali Advocate
Laky Begum - Bengali Advocate
Haile Elmi – Somali Advocate
Rabia Khatun – Bengali Advocate
Sessional Advocates