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Africa for
Africans - Transforming conditions in Zimbabwe right now!
Posted by TheBlackList
on July 12, 2008 at 7:11pm
Africa for Africans - doing it for ourselves!
Transforming conditions in Zimbabwe right now!
Today, Africans from around the world are joining the All
African People's Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP),
coming together as one people to bring our skills back to
Africa and to restore our motherland.
Our latest endeavor is the Zimbabwe Farm Irrigation
Project.
We need your help to raise $6,000 to get this project off
the ground. Will you contribute?
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The Zimbabwe Farm Irrigation Project
AAPDEP has taken on a project to construct a 50m deep
borehole (pressurized well) for irrigation of a 25-acre
section of farmland of the Ujamma
Youth Farming Project (UYFP) in Gweru, Zimbabwe.
For more than ten years, the people of Zimbabwe have
endured severe hardship due to hypocritical economic
sanctions imposed by the U.S., EU, World Bank, IMF and
others in response to the movement of Africans in
Zimbabwe to reclaim their land that has been occupied by
white settlers whose ancestors stole it at gunpoint
during the colonial era.
Currently, Zimbabwe has an unemployment rate of around 80%,
suffers the highest rate of inflation in the world, and
has been hard hit by drought and lack of funds for
farming initiatives.
AAPDEP's participation in this borehole project will help
to support the efforts of UYFP to provide valuable
training, employment, and of course produce to the people
of Zimbabwe.
Ujamma Youth Farming Project
Established in June 2005, UYFP is an African youth-led
farming cooperative that has secured a 100-acre plot of
farmland in the city of Gweru under the Zimbabwe
government's land redistribution program.
UYFP's mission is to empower African youth through
gainful farming initiatives so that they are able to
demonstrate the essential skills necessary to function as
life long productive citizens of Zimbabwe's agrarian
reforms.
One of our immediate goals is to offer produce to
wholesalers and retail outlets in and around Zimbabwe's
midland provinces. A longer term goal is to establish a
training program so African youth from outside of
Zimbabwe and even outside Africa will visit, meet, train,
work, and bond with their counterparts on the farm.
Kwanisai Mafa
UYFP Founder and Chairman
African people do not need charity.
We need self-reliance and self-determination!
For 500 years now, Africa's labor and resources have
built prosperity for Europe, the US, the Caribbean and
everywhere else African people have been dispersed.
Africa's immense human and material wealth must now
benefit Africa!
Donate
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Or send check/money order for "AAPDEP" to:
AAPDEP, P.O. Box 454, Normal, AL 35762
www.developmentforafrica.org
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