WORK IN THE COMMUNITY We give a wide range of services to our community at our office in the centre of Crawley. We have helped 1000 Diego Garcians to settle in the UK these past five yearsHelp with filling of different forms e.g Benefit, Job application and othersAccompany them on certain interviews because of the language barrierHelp the elderly and others to access local services and facilities and do representations on their behalfOrganising social gathering to revitalize cultureHelp them to access courses that are run in Crawley that will empower themOrganising Healthy cooking sessionsRunning of the ' Plantation Club' where different activities are run for the old and othersHelp to other communities whenever they are referred to usOrganising orientation sessions to help new arrivals in the community JavaScript must be enabled to view images.
WORK IN THE COMMUNITY
We give a wide range of services to our community at our office in the centre of Crawley. We have helped 1000 Diego Garcians to settle in the UK these past five yearsHelp with filling of different forms e.g Benefit, Job application and othersAccompany them on certain interviews because of the language barrierHelp the elderly and others to access local services and facilities and do representations on their behalfOrganising social gathering to revitalize cultureHelp them to access courses that are run in Crawley that will empower themOrganising Healthy cooking sessionsRunning of the ' Plantation Club' where different activities are run for the old and othersHelp to other communities whenever they are referred to usOrganising orientation sessions to help new arrivals in the community JavaScript must be enabled to view images.
We give a wide range of services to our community at our office in the centre of Crawley.
We have helped 1000 Diego Garcians to settle in the UK these past five yearsHelp with filling of different forms e.g Benefit, Job application and othersAccompany them on certain interviews because of the language barrierHelp the elderly and others to access local services and facilities and do representations on their behalfOrganising social gathering to revitalize cultureHelp them to access courses that are run in Crawley that will empower themOrganising Healthy cooking sessionsRunning of the ' Plantation Club' where different activities are run for the old and othersHelp to other communities whenever they are referred to usOrganising orientation sessions to help new arrivals in the community JavaScript must be enabled to view images.
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The Diego Garcian Society was founded by Allen Vincatassin ( Patron), who pioneered a settlement of the Diego Garcians and other people of the British Indian Ocean Territory
( formerly known as Chagos Archipelago) in the UK. The first group arrived in the UK on the 16th of September 2002.The community grew from 19 to about 1000 people in five years.
These people were exiled from their homeland for the building of a US military base. They gained the right of abode in the UK and on the EEA under the British Overseas Territories Bill 2002.
The Diego Garcian Society is managed by a Managing Commitee.
The team that is working in the Society are well experienced, and have been working with their community for more than five years, under various unofficial group names.