May/Jun ACTION ALERT: Support Ujamma Youth Farming Project

[Im The Truth]

May/June 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.

[QueenWarriorNefertari]

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?

[QueenWarriorNefertari]

Originally Posted by IfasehunReincarnated

Flier is Up! Pdf and Word doc. versions

Asante sane Yahe Ifasehun.

[QueenWarriorNefertari]

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.

[Mamazen]

Made a financial donation.

This really touches my heart
Anything that will help our people, a nation eat.

Answered the poll too.

[Kentake]

Hotep family!,
As soon as i read the ACTION ALERT for this month on the main page of this site, i was deeply moved and knew that this would be a top priority for me to contribute in anyway i can. well, i got my income tax $$ and i made a donation today of $80 U.S. money order and sent it off to the UJAMAA YOUTH FARMING PROJECT, i also plan to make a donation monthly, if possible.i mean it's better than giving my money to WORLD VISION yurugu sponsors right? anyway, WE should be ON DIS...SERIOUSLY! IF 10 WARRIORS CAN SEND $20 MONTHLY FOR 1 YEAR, OR FOR THOSE THAT CAN AFFORD MORE....EVEN BETTER! IF WE ALL CHIP IN EVERY MONTH WE CAN MAKE MIRACLES HAPPEN FOR THE YOUTH IN AFREEKA AND AFREEKAN PEOPLE IN GENERAL!! THIS IS JUST MY SUGGESTION...LET ME KNOW IF ANY OF YOU ARE WITH THIS PLAN!

UHURU!,
Sistah Kentake.

Originally Posted by Im The Truth

May 2006 ACTION ALERT
main page of this alert: http://assatashakur.org/0506.htm



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

Time Frame: 2 Months

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.

For more information and documentation: http://www.UjammaFarming.Org

Participate

What You Should Do Now:

1. Make a financial donation. 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.) The goal is to raise $6,000.00 for irrigation. Every dollar counts!
   
   
2. Make an equipment donation: Agricultural equipment, Office Equipment, Computers, Printers, and Fax machines, Handsets, Books on Pan-Africanism, Books on Farming, etc.
   
   Address:
   All money donations should be sent to:
   Ujamma Youth Farming Project, c/o S.A.L.S.A
   1112 16th Street NW Suite 600
   Washington DC 20036
   
   All material donations should be sent to:
   Ujamma Youth Farming Project
   P.O BOX 123
   Gweru, Zimbabwe
   
   Contact Information:
   Kwanisai Mafa
   cdemafa@yahoo.com
   +26323511609 or +26311510157
   
   Mariabu Inejnema
   mariabuinejnema1@hotmail.com
   
   Netfa Freeman
   Netfa@hotsalsa.org
   202-787-5229
   
   Let our brothers and sister know they have our support.

Fliers

• Support Ujamma Farm Project Flier (PDF version)
• Support Ujamma Farm Project Flier (Word version)

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.
• Making The Third Chimurenga a reality.
• Built bridges between Africa and its Diaspora.

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*The government of Zimbabwe sought to unlock the value of its people by freeing land to most of the people in an exercised dubbed “The Third Chimurenga – Our Land Is Our Economy” which was a code for the Land Redistribution Exercise.

[Mamazen]

Originally Posted by Kentake

Hotep family!,
As soon as i read the ACTION ALERT for this month on the main page of this site, i was deeply moved and knew that this would be a top priority for me to contribute in anyway i can. well, i got my income tax $$ and i made a donation today of $80 U.S. money order and sent it off to the UJAMAA YOUTH FARMING PROJECT, i also plan to make a donation monthly, if possible.i mean it's better than giving my money to WORLD VISION yurugu sponsors right? anyway, WE should be ON DIS...SERIOUSLY! IF 10 WARRIORS CAN SEND $20 MONTHLY FOR 1 YEAR, OR FOR THOSE THAT CAN AFFORD MORE....EVEN BETTER! IF WE ALL CHIP IN EVERY MONTH WE CAN MAKE MIRACLES HAPPEN FOR THE YOUTH IN AFREEKA AND AFREEKAN PEOPLE IN GENERAL!! THIS IS JUST MY SUGGESTION...LET ME KNOW IF ANY OF YOU ARE WITH THIS PLAN!

UHURU!,
Sistah Kentake.

I'm in!!!That is an exellent idea!!

[Kentake]

Originally Posted by mamazen

I'm in!!!That is an exellent idea!!

Hotep mamazen and ALL ASSATA FAMILY!,
Well then...i am glad 2 see dat the ball is rolling...like i said if even only 10 warriors get on dis', it would make changes happen in OUR AFREEKAN WORLD IN WAYS WE CANNOT IMAGINE! ok...so look at this assessment $20 by 10 warriors=$200 a month, and yearly thatz $2400...IMAGINE!-(and it would be even better if we could have more than 10 ppl inside and/or those ppl that are able 2 donate more according to their income should do so). i guess if you wanna look at it differently 2....we could do this wit any1 of the previous ACTION ALERTS as well...or even rotate from one to the other from month to month. but you see since we are dealing wit Zimbabwe right now on the UJAMAA Project...and WE ALL KNOW DAT RIGHT NOW ZIMBABWE HAS SOOOO MUCH POTENTIAL FOR THE RISE 2WARDS AFREEKAN LIBERATION ...

WE SHOULD ALL REALLY PUT OUR HEADS 2GETHER AND SEE HOW WE CAN PUSH UJAMAA OFF THE GROUND FOR THE BETTERMENT OF OUR CHILDREN....AND OFCOURSE...ULTIMATELY OURSELVES!!...i think i am so emotionally involved because i have a child now and i realize all too well the importance of proper direction, guidance,protection, unconditional love and support of our precious Afreekan babes. by the way, can some1 bump back up last months' ACTION ALERT foh me? i think it was somethin' bout a Pan-Afreekan based school somewhere? anyway, i wasn't online here at assata much last month but i did see the ACTION ALERT for a second and unfortunately was not able to make any commitment/donation on time! so BUMP IT BACK UP FOR A SISTAH AIGHT?

UHURU!,
Sistah Kentake.