About Us

ADP – African Development Project is a charitable incorporated organisation registered under charity number 1188460.

We are specialised in raising awareness of sexual health prevention, mental health and social exclusion among the African community in Leicester and Leicestershire.

We offer a range of services including information, advice on PrEP, C-Card scheme, EACS and rapid HIV testing.

We do weekly HIV outreach campaign to the African businesses and community organisation in Leicester

We organise one to one emotional sessions and training sessions to make the community understand the development of HIV.

The African community in Leicester and Leicestershire are very diverse with multiple cultures which makes very difficult sometimes to deal with.

We always aimed to break down the barriers in the African community in Leicester to help them accessing health services to reduce isolation, exclusion, stigma and discrimination.

The majority of our work is delivered on a One-to-One basis with individual or individuals accompanied by a friend, family member or other professional.

We use a different method to reach a client on a one-to-one basis. Face to face via someone, group office support (letters forms emails) phone calls and website.

Part of our work is also to refer people we support on to other services and clinics. Vice versa.

We always do the client satisfaction survey every three months.

HIV testing is a part of our awareness and prevention work. It has a role in reducing the rate of diagnosis.

Delivery of testing is non-medical community settings organisation helps to destigmatize HIV in order to set up testing opportunities. We speak to community groups and to attend local events and meetings to raise awareness to reach the collective consciousness about sexual health and HIV/AIDs.

  • Talk with everyone you know about sexual health to break the stigma
  • Open up about people sex experience
  • Encourage people to come forward for the rapid test
  • Educate ourselves about sexual infection transmission
  • Volunteer to help others
  • Leverage social media
  • Teach people about the power of word weapon
  • Coordinate a screening event

Our prevention work includes ensuring the C-cards scheme condom delivery available to the African community in Leicester and Leicestershire will ensure that people know how to use condoms and increase awareness about the different sizes.

ADP African Development project has developed links to many of the different African communities  groups, bars, restaurants and barber shops within Leicester including the following:

Congolese Cameroonian Angolan, African Caribbean Zimbabwean, Ghanaian, Eritrean, Ivory Coast Tanzanian and Nigerian.

ADP will use these always links and continuing to engage with these communities to:

  • Increased knowledge and understanding about HIV, HIV transmission and other sexual diseases through one-to-one sessions and using leaflets and posters created by ADP
  • Promote use of condoms, Lube and PrEP to reduce the risk of HIV transmission and other sexual diseases
  • Promote the benefit of regular HIV testing for days here are at risk within these community
  • To create links to additional community groups and businesses

Are you interested in us?

Please get involved, volunteers are a vital part of ADP African Development project. Plenty opportunities for the community to be involved please join us with your specific idea, project and event by calling 07538182874 or 07429505057 or 07477377765