I'm Usman Ahmed - one of the Gateway Family services health trainers and I'm constantly finding myself helping people pick their way through the myths or facts of diet and excercise. Ever heard of...
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Being a Dad is not as difficult
Being a parent for the first time can be daunting…. Mohammed and his partner Leah are both under 19 years old and have just become proud first time parents to a baby girl. Mohammed is a full time...
Don’t give up you can do it!
Sometimes it just feels like everything going against you. When you feel this way remember you’re not alone and there are always people that can help. This is exactly the way that Mandy was feeling...
Volunteering – a stepping stone back into employment
http://youtu.be/dIKsHtdJqUk Having been made unemployed during the height of the recession, Paul was lost as to what to do next. After seeing if retirement suited him, he realised that he wanted to...
Birmingham Food Crisis: a glimpse of the unseen absolute poverty in 21st century UK
With thanks to Rhiannon Lockley who wrote this blog for us. Rhiannon is West mids regional women's officer for UCU. “We were really struggling. It really did get to the point where we just...
Pregnant Mothers helped with food poverty crisis in Birmingham
We are really pleased with the press attention being given to the food poverty amongst pregnant women in Birmingham and how we are able to help with food parcels. Unfortunately this probably...
Breaking the cycle of teenage pregnancy
Teenage pregnancies can go through families in generations. It's quite common in fact for young mothers to be the offspring of young mothers. It's the lifestyle and culture that many women know and...
The family can be a place of violence and abuse…
Of all our social institutions, the family is perhaps the one with which we are most familiar. As we proceed through our lives, our experiences within the family give rise to some of our strongest...
Helping people change their behaviour
Sometimes, just having the motivation and desire to lose weight is the biggest barrier to overcome for most people who are considering getting in shape or getting healthier. The routine and desire...
