May/Jun 2006 ACTION ALERT: Support Ujamma Youth Farming Project

[Im The Truth]

May/June 2006 ACTION ALERT

Title: Support Ujamma Youth Farming Project, Support The Third Chimurenga*

Time Frame: 2 Month

Plan of Action:Contribute financial and supply support towards Ujamma Youth Farming Project. Zimbabwe's land redistribution exercise benefited formerly marginalised groups like African women and African youth. However, resources were thinly stretched as the government had to battle with drought relief, an economy under siege from sanctions, lack of support from global lending institutions and a declining perception in the eyes of the world.

Purpose of Action: Support Africa's right to self-determination through feeding its own People.

Established in June 2005, Ujamma Youth Farming Project (UYFP) is an African youth-led farming cooperative that has secured a 100-acre plot in the city of Gweru under the Zimbabwe government's A1 resettlement program and is registered under the Ministry of Youth, Gender and Employment Creation. The leadership core of UYFP is a very socially conscious unit that despises poverty and desires greatness at family, national and continental levels. Our mission is to empower African youth through gainful farming initiatives so that they are able to demonstrate the essential skills necessary to function as lifelong productive citizens in Africa's development. While one of our immediate goals is to offer produce to wholesalers and retail outlets in and around midland provinces in Zimbabwe, a longer term goal is to establish a training program such that youth of African descent from outside of Zimbabwe and even outside Africa will also visit, meet, train/work, and bond with their youth counterparts on the farm.

Our mission is to empower Afrikan youth through gainful farming initiatives, so that they are able to demonstrate the essential skills necessary to function as lifelong productive citizens, through Zimbabwe's agrarian reforms, and ultimately in Afrika's development.

In the city of Gweru in the Midlands province of Zimbabwe, a farming cooperative was formed and registered under the Ministry of Youth , which drew its leadership from former student leaders. Most of its leaders were leaders of student representative councils at institutions of higher learning. It is from their days in student unionism where we can trace their roots in pan-africanism.

Website: http://www.UjammaFarming.Org

Participate

What You Should Do Now:

1. You can mail a money order or check to the address below. Also you can make an online donation at: [http://www.ujammafarming.org/donate.htm (No amount is too small or large.)
   
   
2. Make an equipment donation: Agricultural equipment, Office Equipment, Computers, Printers, and Fax machines.
   
   Address:
   
   Ujamma Youth Farming Project,
   c/o S.A.L.S.A
   1112 16th Street NW Suite 600
   Washington DC 20036
   
   Contact Information:
   Kwanisai Mafa
   cdemafa@yahoo.com
   +26323511609 or +26311510157
   
   Mariabu Inejnema
   mariabuinejnema1@hotmail.com
   
   Netfa Freeman
   Netfa@hotsalsa.org
   301-938-4628
   
   
   Let our brothers and sister know they have our support.

Support Ujamaa Farm Project

Support Ujamaa Farm Project


Goals & Outcomes

Goals

Increase Public Awareness about Zimbabwe
Support African Youth
Groom volunteers and supporters of Action for Africa.
Encourage and inspire Self-Determination Efforts in Africa.


Outcomes
African Self-Determination Project will have necessary social and economic support.
Forward Movement to Pan-Africanism.
Built bridges between Africa and its Diaspora.

[Mahmoud Siddiqi]

THANK YOU...THANK YOU...THANK YOU!!!


I am on it.....

[Cynequa]

ON IT.

Sidebar Question: Can we make this into a flyer for ourselves since there isn't one available?

Don't want to do anything wrong here.

Uhuru Sasa

[Im The Truth]

You can and should make as many flyers as you like. If you ever see anything lacking or you believe it is lacking fix it when and where you can. You can never go wrong if you heart, mind, and soul is in serving Our People.

Afrika!

Originally Posted by Cynequa

ON IT.

Sidebar Question: Can we make this into a flyer for ourselves since there isn't one available?

Don't want to do anything wrong here.

Uhuru Sasa

[Kweku_Omowale]

truth!! uhuru!! can u pm that alert,i will get on the ball with dat one,i am not computer savy like the rest of the family,also email me this one truth,pleaaaze,i have to forward toa few people,assante sana truth!

[IfasehunReincarnated]

Flier is Up! Pdf and Word doc. versions

[Mahmoud Siddiqi]

MUCH appreciation for the flyers warrior Ifasehun. I hope you do this for every action alert.


One recommendation: Put the address where people can send donations to on the flyer because alot of people do not have the internet but still want to contribute.

[IfasehunReincarnated]

Originally Posted by member asks:

On the flyer for Ujamma, there are two flyers per page. How do I make it just one so when I print it out I don't have to cut each page?

since we have a lot of college students i normally try to post two fliers per page, so folks can cut out on the number of copies and amount of paper they have to use.

the flier always directs them back to the page of the alert, where they can read the full description, get additional web addresses and see any additional resources available. and of course, so they actually take the poll associated w/ that alert.

[Mahmoud Siddiqi]

Originally Posted by IfasehunReincarnated

since we have a lot of college students i normally try to post two fliers per page, so folks can cut out on the number of copies and amount of paper they have to use.

the flier always directs them back to the page of the alert, where they can read the full description, get additional web addresses and see any additional resources available. and of course, so they actually take the poll associated w/ that alert.

What poll are you talking about?

[Cynequa]

Originally Posted by IfasehunReincarnated

Flier is Up! Pdf and Word doc. versions

Asante sane Yahe Ifasehun.

[Cynequa]

Originally Posted by Mahmoud Siddiqi

What poll are you talking about?

Look through this Action Alert again, little brother. Because there is a link to the poll in there. Just seen it myself.

[Mahmoud Siddiqi]

Originally Posted by Cynequa

Look through this Action Alert again, little brother. Because there is a link to the poll in there. Just seen it myself.

Thank you for pointing this out to me beloved sister. I did not even see this one time, I was thinking that the poll was going to be on the FORUM. I apologize for the confusion.