African Women's Charity
Organization
P.O. Box 23074 Oakland, CA 94623-0074 U.S.A.
Phone: (415) 789-7360
Email: ForAfricanWomen@xxxxxxx
Website:
http://hometown.aol.com/forafricanwomen/myhomepage/index.html
Building African Women’s & Youth Movements and
Forming International Sisterhood
Newsletter*********** December 2006
Conference!
The African
Women’s Charity Organization is proud to announce that we are organizing an
African Women’s and Youth Conference in Dakar, Senegal in West Africa on
March 10-11, 2007. This is going to be our first conference organized in
Africa and because of this we consider this our most important conference. This
will be the 12th conference that we have organized since 2000. We are
so excited about it because it is from the work from all of you who have
participated which makes it possible to organize this conference on the ground
in Africa. We view this as a huge success. We congratulate and thank you and we
look forward to your continued support for this conference also. The theme of
this conference is “The Importance of Self-Reliance.”
As with all of our
previous conferences, this conference too, is free of charge so that the actual
cost of the conference won’t be the reason for anyone not attending. We do not
make any money off of the conferences, therefore we cannot sponsor or pay for
anyone’s travel or accommodations. We suggest that you get your organization to
sponsor you.
We are expecting
participants from organizations from all areas of the world. For information
about travel you can contact: www.excursions4u.com 209-304-6375
The hotel have
that we will be using for the conference is just 2 kilometers (ten minutes of
travel) from the place of the conference. It is called Hacienda Hotel and it
will cost $56 for a single bed a night. It will cost $65 for 2beds for a night.
The website for the hotel is www.hotel-hacienda.net .The phone number is (221)
8324103; the fax number is (221) 8321133. We know that there is no visa required
for people coming from the United States and we will be checking to see if it is
the same for other countries. There is no application to fill out and
registration is at the door, therefore for those who are definitely coming from
outside of Senegal then let us know and we will make sure that you get
in.
The panel topics
are: “The relationship between organization and self-reliance”, “Education and
self-reliance”, “The importance of the unification of Africa to self-reliance”,
“How to build a Women’s Movement and the importance of Women’s leadership”, “How
to build a Youth Movement and the importance of Youth leadership”, and
“Solidarity with Women and Youth of the World”.
As we stated, the
theme of this conference is “The Importance of Self-Reliance.” We are
well aware that there are some of our people who would like to stay dependent
because of what they think that they can get personally out of being dependent,
but we believe that the only way that we can truly stop the suffering of our
people is through self-reliance. More on this topic is included on the back side
of our conference flyers as well as our paper titled “Self-Sufficiency and
Building Collectives.”
There are some organizations in Africa who truly deserve
to have a representative attend this conference but cannot afford it. We need
sponsors for these people. Should you be able to sponsor some one please contact
us as soon as possible so that we can connect. In most cases just the travel
fare is needed. And travel throughout Africa is less expensive respectively. We
also suggest that everyone wear white to the conference as a show of unity
and that those who can afford it, please bring school and medical supplies
to donate to the local population. Thanks for your support.
The “Pennies for Zimbabwe”
project in still in process. Its very important that we continue to
support this project now more than ever because those who wish to see Africa
dependent do not want Zimbabwe to succeed because Zimbabwe is an example for
self-reliance in Africa through the reacquisition of the land for the use of the
people as opposed to the former colonialists.
We thank all of
you who have given to the “Pennies for Zimbabwe” project. We need more volunteers who are willing
to collect “pennies” for this project. (You can give any denomination of money
and many people have. But pennies allow all those who wish to give to be able to
give. It also allows us to go to the masses of the people and provide education
about the struggle in Africa. Another reason is that we know that many people
save pennies and other coins.) Please contact us for your donation.
These donations go
to Mbuye Nehanda School, which is also an orphanage and farm run by
ZANU PF Women’ s League. In October 2004 we were able to give the
$2,120. In August of 2006 we gave
$300. We are still collecting and we are looking forward to your contribution.
More information on the “Pennies for Zimbabwe” project is available upon
request.
The Need for Neighborhood Councils
The Africa Women
‘s Charity Organization has called for the building of neighborhood councils as
a means of self-reliance and control of our communities. We often hear that
there is a lack of leadership among our people. We really disagree with that
analysis. We believe that there is a wealth of leadership among the people that
is not being recognized because of the narrow view of leadership. We know that
the leadership role that women have played throughout our history has not been
acknowledged. As a result we have greatly weakened ourselves organizationally.
We know that in every community there is leadership, and we are calling for the
recognition of that leadership in order to begin to properly organize the
masses. We are calling the people to recognize the people who have had a history
of playing a leadership role in our neighborhoods and we are asking the people
to connect the African Women’s Charity Organization to these people so we can
share our visions of the world and organize ourselves into an awesome movement
that is connected to Africa. For us organization is the key and we know that
what we are asking here will help us tremendously is terms of
organization.
African
Educators’ Committee
We are asking
African educators all over the world to join the African Women’s Charity
Organization. We want you to be organized in order to collectively work out an
educational curriculum from the cradle to the grave for the masses of 900
million Africans scattered in 125 counries. This is an assignment that if
accepted and carried out, people can justify the blood that we shed so that you
could be educated. We have some guidelines and ideas that we know will serve us.
We will share that with you.
African Educator’s Committee
Objectives
- To develop an all-around curriculum
for Africans world wide from the cradle to the
grave.
- For African Educators to have an
organization in which the sole purpose is to serve the people, the people,
whose struggle made it possible for us to get an
education.
- To develop an educational curriculum
that will be vital to building a strong infrastructure in Africa along with
being tightly organized and self-reliant outside of
Africa.
- To make a serious contribution towards
building African Women and Youth movements
worldwide.
- To build the African Women’s Charity
Organization
The
purpose of proper education is to prepare the student to be a responsible
handler of power. Any other type of education is a waste of time. - John Henrik
Clarke
Membership
First we’d like to
thank all of our old members because it is your $20 yearly membership that has
allowed us to maintain our day-to-day activities. We are in the process of
building powerful African Women and Youth Movements that will connect all
African women and youth inside of Africa and outside of Africa. This is a very
important part of the African independence movement. African Women’s and Youth
movements are necessary to educate, mobilize, and organize the largest number of
African women and youth as possible. Our vision includes obtaining our own
collective schools, childcare, housing, kitchens, transportation, and
employment. We must build a strong infrastructure in Africa and we must be
tightly organized outside of Africa. Your $20 membership fee will take us one
step closer to building these awesome African Women and Youth Movements.
Please contribute. Your contributions to
the African Women’s Charity Organization allow us to do our work and are tax
deductible. We are looking forward to intensifying our efforts toward unity,
independence and self-sufficiency!
We need to develop our committees, they
are “Pennies for Zimbabwe”, “African Educators, (Education from the cradle to
the grave)”, “Collectives (Housing, Kitchens, Childcare)”, “Fundraising-Tee
shirts, international trade network”,” Neighborhood Councils”, “Elders
Committee”
We are looking
forward to having another conference in Africa. We are determined to
continue to have conferences in the spirit of self-reliance. This means that we
need people who are willing to organize the conference with an organization that
has very little money because this is the way that we have organized all of our
other conferences and a way that helps us be more self-reliant. This is what we
need to build strong Women and Youth Movements. We are asking for people in
Africa to volunteer who are willing to find us a place that will be able to hold
at least 200 people as a start.
