The Employability Programme a Positive East has been running since 2007 and has resulted in impressive results in terms of Positive East clients gaining employment in partnership with the charity.
Kate Coulson
Barclays Bank PLC
The facilitators are excellent and made the whole experience so much easier. Jim and Paul were especially helpful and made it a pleasure to come to the course. I feel more confident and positive about the future and more knowledgeable about HIV. I no longer feel I am to blame now that I have met other people in the same situation and listened to experts in the field of HIV.
Recently Diagnosed course participant
I would urge all Africans to take the test. I had un-safe sex on more than one occasion – both here and in the Congo. I wanted to take the test for some time, but nerves and fear always got the better of me. Not knowing played on my mind almost daily, to the point where it was affecting my work and my concentration. I saw a banner outside St. John's church in Hackney, advertising rapid HIV tests for Africans' and decided test there and then. Within fifteen minutes I'd received a negative result and the relief was immense. I can't believe that I'd spent so much time worrying when I need not have. I intend to tell my friends and colleagues about this testing facility, as I know that some of them have the same anxieties around HIV. It feels so good to know and I feel empowered again.
Francis, aged 28
I had wanted to test for quite a while but always found a reason not to. Then, one day a worker from Positive East gave me a card listing the community clinics in Hackney. I must admit, I was nervous, but the worker helped dispel the myths surrounding HIV. He explained that whatever the result was, it would leave me in a position to make safer and more informed choices regarding my future health. When I received a negative result, it felt like an enormous weight had been lifted from my shoulders – one that had been there for some years. Now I know I'm negative, I can concentrate on staying that way. Thank you Positive East, I feel that I'm back in control of my life.
The Employability Programme a Positive East has been running since 2007 and has resulted in impressive results in terms of Positive East clients gaining employment in partnership with the charity.
Kate Coulson
Barclays Bank PLC
The facilitators are excellent and made the whole experience so much easier. Jim and Paul were especially helpful and made it a pleasure to come to the course. I feel more confident and positive about the future and more knowledgeable about HIV. I no longer feel I am to blame now that I have met other people in the same situation and listened to experts in the field of HIV.
Recently Diagnosed course participant
I would urge all Africans to take the test. I had un-safe sex on more than one occasion – both here and in the Congo. I wanted to take the test for some time, but nerves and fear always got the better of me. Not knowing played on my mind almost daily, to the point where it was affecting my work and my concentration. I saw a banner outside St. John's church in Hackney, advertising rapid HIV tests for Africans' and decided test there and then. Within fifteen minutes I'd received a negative result and the relief was immense. I can't believe that I'd spent so much time worrying when I need not have. I intend to tell my friends and colleagues about this testing facility, as I know that some of them have the same anxieties around HIV. It feels so good to know and I feel empowered again.
Francis, aged 28
I had wanted to test for quite a while but always found a reason not to. Then, one day a worker from Positive East gave me a card listing the community clinics in Hackney. I must admit, I was nervous, but the worker helped dispel the myths surrounding HIV. He explained that whatever the result was, it would leave me in a position to make safer and more informed choices regarding my future health. When I received a negative result, it felt like an enormous weight had been lifted from my shoulders – one that had been there for some years. Now I know I'm negative, I can concentrate on staying that way. Thank you Positive East, I feel that I'm back in control of my life.
Ade, aged 28