Fostering & Diabetes Awareness Days
Fostering
On Thursday 25th October we had a visit from Lambeth fostering and adoption service. There is currently a shortage of foster carers from the Eritrean community to care for the high numbers of children that are arriving in the country without their parents. The event was organised so that member of our congregation and other Eritreans in south London can find out how they can help to provide homes to these children and thereby helping them to settle sooner and have a better chance of making a positive start to their life here in the UK.
By attending this event members were able to find out:
What foster caring is?
The benefits of foster caring
Who is able to become a foster carer?
The process involved in becoming a foster carer
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Diabetes Awareness Day
On Saturday 27th October we delivered a successful diabetes awareness day for some members of the congregation. Aster Mehretab a Health & Wellbeing Advisor and explained what diabetes is, complications of the condition, weight management, importance of exercise and food management, monitoring and the impact of diabetes.
We also had guest speaker Rebecca Strutton from Guys and St. Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust, who talked about the importance of having an annual diabetic eye screening. Rebecca explained the screening process and how images are graded according to the level of diabetic retinopathy.
This was followed by members having an opportunity to have their blood glucose levels and blood pressure monitored. There was examples of how to prepare healthy food and portion sizes.
