:: MODA - Migrant Organisations' Development Agency ::

MODA Outreach capacity-building support
This project aims to support small and medium community organisations in areas of capacity-building needs identified by the groups themselves. As part of our 2008 progarmme we are now in the process of recruiting 10-15 community groups to provide them with free 1-2-1 targeted technical support to build up their governance and operational structures, help them with business and project planning and management and increase their access to resources and funding. The groups will be selected on"first come, first serve" basis. If you wish to be considered for support please fill in the online form: Outreach Capacity Building Support. (Click) Deadline is 31 August 2008.

MODA Quality Support Project
The project aims to build up quality systems, policies and procedures of the beneficiary organisations to meet the standards of obtaining Quality Mark or PQASSO. We have space for up to 10 new community groups to receive this free service from now until August 2008. The groups will be selected on first come, first serve basis. If you are interested please fill in the online application form. (Click here) (Deadline is 1 March 2008.)

MODA Training Room Facilities
Good news for MODA members and users. We now have our own training room at 1 Mark street with enough space for up to 20 trainees. From January 2008, we will run regular training programmes every month. We will publish the details of our programme in the next E-bulletin. Community groups needing room for meetings and training can hire the training room from £10 per hour.(19/10/2007)

MODA AGM 2007
MODA’s AGM was as usual a successful event. In addition to formal business that included approving annual report and accounts, election of management committee and reappointment of auditors, there were interesting presentations, speeches and poems as well as a specail seminar on “empowering participation of disadvantaged groups.
Then MODA members (over 50 people) celebrated International World Tolerance Day on the 16th November 2007 by inviting groups to bring and share dishes and cultural artistry from around the world. Our wonderful feast of delicious foods included Bursalid and sambusa from Somalia, dolma and pilaw rice dishes from Kurdistan, chicken biryani and fish dishes from Bangladesh, pomegranate and lentil salad, tabouleh and rice dishes from Iraq, aubergine salad from Romania, West African jollof rice, banana rice cake and ginger beer from Sierra Leone, a Yugoslavian fish dish, Burmese salad, curry and naan breads from India and Pakistan and Kosovan pastries. We were also very pleased to invite Iraqi artist Ghada Habib to display some of her paintings. Special thanks to MODA volunteers Sanja Molloy, Mihaela Baduta, Farhana Chowdhury and Naba Kadhim for all their assistance with this event and organisation of AGM.
MODA would like to say a big thank you all groups who supported the event including Bengali Women and Children’s Association, Bow and Bethnal Green Somali Community, BRICKS, Harrow Somali Youth Forum, Iraqi Women’s League, KANGA, Kurdish Association, Migrant Resource Centre, Myanmar-Burma Relief and Welfare Association, Gargaar Somali Welfare Association, Somali Welfare Centre, Talented Artists International, Ukrainian Migrants’ Voice Initiative, West London Refugee Women’s Forum, Umubano Rwandan Community Group and Zhinan Kurdish Women’s Union. Thanks too to Jospehine Vandi from Talented Artists International for her acrostic poem written specially for MODA’s World Tolerance Day celebration.

T- hrough this initiative of Tolerance and Understanding
O-ur world can unite for peace and better living
L – et love be the Key in each deliberation
E- nhance this bond in this year’s Celebration
R-egardless of Race, Colour, or Creed
A –llow this Project to expel all hate and greed
N-obly with Tolerance, Skills and Abilities
C-almly “Make A Difference” in communities
E-xperience God’s blessings in all activities

Community & organisational development for new migrant communities

Since May 2004 when Eastern European countries became EU members, more than 1 million migrants from these countries especially Poland with (about 600,000) have moved to Britain. These new communities face massive problems and challenges. MODA tries to help these communities: Polish, Check, Slovak, Estonians, Lithuanians, Albanians and Latvians, to help themselves by encouraging and supporting the setting up of self-help projects and community/voluntary organisations for them. Click here to continue. (06/02/2007)

MODA Directory of Ethnic Community Organisations 2006
You can now order your copy of MODA’s Directory. It has 226 pages giving in-depth information about 513 organisations and networks. It is a one-stop information resource which helps you to access various resources and identify organisations with similar objects for partnerships, exchange and collaboration. It gives information about the resources which community organisations have and are prepared to share and the resources which they need and look for in other organisations. It costs only £12.00 including packaging and postage. For orders over 10 copies we give a further 10% discount. To order a copy please click here.