Laamiga is a UK charity that supports women from minority ethnic, migrant and refugee backgrounds to help them build confidence, improve their skills and achieve greater independence. The charity’s main aim is to help women overcome the barriers they may face when wanting to pursue opportunities such as employment, education or social inlcusion. The chairty want to enable and empower women to realise thwir full potential and become solely independent. The orgnisation offer mentoring programmes, career coaching, training and digital and literacy skills development as well as porjects that promote wellbeing, employability support and commnity engagement. They work to reduce isolation of the women from these communities and create supportive networks and partnerships which will ultimately help their benficiaries devlop the confidnece and skills they need to thrive wihtin society and workplaces.
The chairty received one donated windows 11 laptop at this event. With a primary focus on empowering women surroudnign their financial and employment opportunities the laptop will contribute to dleivering these programmes and supporting these women to devlop their skills and knowledge in this area. They also offer projects which will imporve digital and literacy skills and refurbished technology will postively impact these services the chairtry rpovides which their benficiares can take forward in their furtures.