Angolan Civic Communities Alliance (Acca)

Mr Alex Da Costa

Director

The Angolan Civic Communities Alliance (ACCA) is mainly a pan-Portuguese speaking communities support and advisory service that serves as the main point of contact for the Portuguese speaking communities of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Goa, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe and also providing support services to a proportion of French speaking communities of Congo, Zaire, Côte D’Ivoire, Rwanda and Burundi in Northwest and West London.

ACCA is a pan-London organisation with services in Central,East and West London.{p}ACCA provides a range of services; encourages networking; enables and empowers the wider Portuguese speaking community to take part in strategic partnership working, shaping the delivery of services; takes the lead in identifying gaps in the service provision and develops new and innovative services to meet the constant changing needs of the communities it serves. Is directly involved in a wide range of community-led initiatives and programmes in health and social care, life long learning, volunteering, welfare rights and benefits, housing, health, education, employment and training, immigration and asylum, community resettlement and integration, language and interpreting services, children and families, including parenting, domestic violence and conflict resolution through community approach, un-accompanied minors services, community fostering and befriending, role models for young people, linking communities and linking communities in conflict, mother-tongue and cultural heritage, after-school support and summer programmes for parents and young people and an elderly service.