African Women's Charity Organization Conference!
Monday 15th December 2006

The African Women Charity Organization is proud to announce that we are organizing an African Women 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 12^th 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; 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 countries. 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 Committee Objectives

1. To develop an all-around curriculum for Africans world wide from the cradle to the grave.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. To make a serious contribution towards building African Women and Youth movements worldwide.
5. 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 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 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 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.

Charity begins at home for African women and women of African descent.