Bangladeshi Women’s Health Project

Bangladeshi Women’s Health Project and Resource Library 

Bristol Women’s Voice has set up a Bangladeshi Women’s Health Project to meet the needs identified by the Bangladeshi women. 

Bristol Women’s Voice worked with two community facilitators, Lily Khandker and Khairun Miah, who  identified women in the community who wanted to be involved as peer mentors.

Following training, the peer mentors were responsible for facilitating support bubbles of between 3-10 Bangladeshi women through online group sessions and providing one to one contact, linking them to groups, organisations and agencies to meet their needs. 

The group sessions and one to one contact reached women with knowledge, information and support needed. These sessions/individual contacts also served as platforms for socialising, and information sharing for the women to voice their needs and issues.

In collaboration with the Bristol Women’s Voice team, Lily and Khairun, facilitated a bespoke programme of regular health-related workshops in response to what the women said they wanted to learn about including post-natal depression, menopause, mental health, diabetes, breast cancer and well-being. 

You can find links to some of the information shared so far in the resource library below. Keep checking back – there is more to come! 

You can read the full evaluation of the project here. 

Resource library: Click on the image to download the pdf.