Who We Are
Karibu offers information, advice, help, support and counselling services to individuals and families from diverse backgrounds and minority groups in Ipswich and Suffolk and the environment. It aims to promote awareness of ethnic, cultural and religious diversity within statutory and voluntary organisations and the larger community. Karibu is governed by a Board of Trustees.
Karibu receive Quality Framework from Community Action Suffolk
Over 180 organisations in Suffolk have used the CAS Quality Standards to help them strengthen, build their confidence and embed effective practice across the organisation. Groups say it:
Improved confidence, resilience and efficiency through the implementation of robust policies and procedures.
Engaged staff across the organisation to be a part of embedding quality and development
Working towards CAS quality standards award helped us secure robust policies and procedures. Through this work we not only learnt a great deal, but also found it helped us on many practical levels.
It gives us peace of mind that we are working in line both with legal requirements and with best practice. Having the award helps us to show our funders and clients that we take governance seriously and are a trustworthy organisation
Celebrating 20 years of Empowerment
Karibu proudly marks 20 years of dedicated service to the community. Over the past two decades, we have remained committed to providing support, promoting inclusion, and fostering a sense of belonging for all. We celebrate this milestone with gratitude and look forward to continuing our work together.
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Mission
Karibu seeks to provide information, advice and help to African women and their families in Ipswich and Suffolk in general.
Vision​
African women and their families are fully integrated in Ipswich and their cultural values are understood and appreciated.
Aims​
We aim to continually develop our services and respond to the needs of our community.
What We Do
Objectives
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To meet the specific needs of African women in response to their diverse backgrounds
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To help members feel at home in the United Kingdom by supporting them to access available services
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To support and prevent underachievement by offering courses that build African women's self confidence and self assertiveness to develop partnership between and across the different service providers
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To generate publicity materials to create awareness of the availability and access to different avenues of support for African women
Impact
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Members of the African Community will be able to meet socially
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They will be able to freely discuss the needs of their children to include complimentary education in African culture (drumming, arts & culture, etc) and to provide opportunities for this and for social interaction with each other
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Promote health advice and information
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Promote social activities in order to reach out to isolated African women and their families
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Identify ways of outreaching into our communities, in order to give something back through support, advice and opportunities