We'd like to thank everyone who participated in last year’s first Yoga With a Purpose Benefit Week! Your support helped to make it a successful fundraiser for sustainable African community-led economic development projects.
This year we have a goal of expanding to 70-100 classes in studios throughout the U.S., and we're calling on you to join the hundreds of others in the yoga community by donating the proceeds from one class or workshop during the week of May 2nd – 9th, 2010 to the African Village Survival Initiative!
The African Village Survival Initiative is a program created by the African-led Uhuru Movement for community-based economic self-reliance. The Uhuru (Freedom) House in St Petersburg FL, the worldwide headquarters of the Uhuru Movement, is a working center for economic development. The African Village Survival Initiative (AVSI) is working to equip the Uhuru House with a recording studio as an institution of international African culture and a commercial kitchen for community based economic development projects.
At a time when unemployment is over 50% in African communities, these self-sustaining institutions are key to economic development, creating countless new jobs, expanding existing businesses and producing African culture in African hands.
AVSI Uhuru House projects are about the African community solving the problems by uniting Africans together all over this country and the world for self-determination.
This is not charity. Donate as solidarity with African people creating their own development by participating in the Yoga With a Purpose Benefit Week!
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
• Get yoga studios in your community to donate classes
• Community outreach
• Volunteer at the events
• Teach a benefit yoga class or workshop
• Host a Yoga With a Purpose benefit house party!
In or near Philadelphia? Come to the Community Meetings:
Saturdays from 2-4pm:
• March 27 • April 10
and Every Thursday • 7:30pm
Uhuru Solidarity Center
3733 Lancaster Ave • W. Phila • #10 trolley
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