PACE was established as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in 2017. It is registered with UK charity commission – registration no 1171773.
PACE charity was founded by Dr Ratna Chatterjee MD, PhD and Dr Rekha Bajoria MRCOG, MRCP, PhD.
Both Ratna and Rekha have acquired extensive experience during our lifetime by working relentlessly in the top UK universities as Clinical Academics and Consultants in the NHS for 40 years.
During this journey we developed various teaching tools for healthcare professionals both Nationally and Internationally.
We also developed a unique postgraduate degree programme for UCL to teach doctors, nurses and other health care professional including clinical medicine.
We have also taught and designed tools for various aspects of health care for outreach workers and clinics in villages and small towns in low resource and developing countries including India and China.
With this background, we strongly believe that a strong literacy skill-training programme is crucial for communities, in order to ensure that its future generations are skilled, employable and prosperous.
This charity aims in addressing the key issue of language barrier, basic literacy, and information technology in adults with emphasis on women residing in borough, which drains a diverse multi-ethnic population. This hinders their aspiration to learn skills for employment.
We are driven by the aim to transform lives of adults of all ages by enabling livelihoods. We aim to create equal opportunities for all, regardless of socioeconomic background, geographic locations or gender.
Empowerment of women through acquisition of literacy educational support and skill acquisition with employability and building of self-confidence.
We need to build a multi disciplinary team to address the abovementioned needs of young women residing in local communities.
PACE have start up funding that was provided by the founders towards setting up and the infrastructure of the charity such as office space, purpose built modern classroom, equipment and stationary.
Educational materials, pamphlets books, stationary will be provided to the learners free of charge. Access to computer will also be provided.
Training will be offered to acquire self-esteem, presentation skills and also relationship building. Social integration and special training will be given for job interviews.
We wish to liaise with other educational charities, social services, mentoring and counselling services provided by the Council and local Borough, Educational Board, job centres, local School, employment agencies, healthcare and support services, voluntary organisations (CVS) and of the Council and Borough. We wish to integrate and interact with other players involved with other charities involved with women’s welfare, physical health.
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As a collective organisation, we are always looking to form new relationships with community partners, whether they be teachers and schools, delivery providers or funders. We would love to connect with you.
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We are grateful to the many that have supported us on this journey to date.
Your generous contribution will allow us to continue our mission to develop collective solutions that will enable children and young people in areas of poverty to thrive in education and beyond.
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