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The Community Health Information Workers has been operating from 1986 and was started by community workers who seen the lack of quality health information available to people in local areas. Each Community Health Information Worker was selected because the volunteer would be in a position to pass the information provided easily to family, friends, and members of groups and the community in which they lived. Each group should have ten members and some were selected because owned a house shop, (pinned the minutes/leaflets up for all to see in the shop) a pensioner who everybody knew and called upon or a member of Highfield Community Centre. Each volunteer is in a position to meet many others and pass the proper information with appropriate contact and telephone numbers in a friendly and informal setting e.g. having a cup of tea, picking the children up from school, at the local women’s group etc. There are now five projects – Upper Springfield, Shankill, North Belfast, South Belfast and East Belfast. Each group meets fortnightly for two hours gathering information on topics and subjects they think are relevant for people within their areas. These could be, Alzheimer’s or Dementia, Funding for Local Groups, Fostering, 11 Plus Examination, Community Dietician, AIDS, Domestic Violence etc. These projects are a great success and the scheme has been copied in East Belfast and £1,000,000 was received from NOF for 100 more C.H.I.W. for East Belfast. They have also been duplicated in Derry, North Down and Carrickfergus.
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