Shpresa Programme

For the benefit of those albanian people in the uk either seeking asylum or granted refugee status or who are migrants and their dependants: (a) to advance their education and training particularly so as to advance them in life and assist them to adapt within a new community; (b) the relief of financial hardship in particular but not exclusively by providing advice and other assistance; (c) to preserve and protect their good physical and mental health; (d) the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life of those persons who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances; and (e) to promote any further charitable purposes for the benefit of the albanian speaking community in the uk as the trustees may from time to time decide (with preference being given to the london area).