MXMF Programs

Omawale Language & Culture Program

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:10:55 -0500

Omawale Language & Culture Program includes workshops that will focus on the Kiswahili language as well as the Wolof & Mandinka languages of the Senegalese & Gambian countries. Students will learn Black & African language & culture as a supplement to their mandated school lessons. Students will have the opportunity to correspond with students from our partner countries and work to create an international entrepreneurship project with the African students. They will also have an opportunity to travel to Senegal/Gambia for cultural exchange, rights of passage and to work together to implement their entrepreneur project.

Ujima Project

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:05:49 -0500

Ujima is a Kiswahili word that means “familyhood”. It is also recognized as an Afrikan Kwanzaa principle, “Collective Work & Responsibility” (Making our brothers & sisters problems our problems, and working to solve them together). This principle is the basis of the program.
Activities include; regular volunteer visits to the Nebraska Correctional Facilities particularly Harambee Afrikan Cultural Organization meetings in the Lincoln & Tecumseh penitentiaries & the Omaha Youth Detention Facility, Children with Incarcerated Parents Program to provide transportation for children to visit parents who are incarcerated, and transportation for families to visit incarcerated family members.

Harambee Umoja Youth Event

Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:00:41 -0500

Harambee Umoja Youth Event (Come together for Unity):
The purpose of this event is to facilitate a means for the HACO members to give back to the community and help illuminate positive life-choice alternatives for the youth, to introduce and help the youth utilize positive African principles and to provide something fun for the youth to be a part of. The 2008 activity is a premier to the 5 day African American leadership camp which will be facilitated in 2009.

Black August Omaha

Fri, 1 Aug 2008 08:57:00 -0500

Black August Omaha is an annual Edutainment (Education & Entertainment) event which features performances and presentations by local & national artivists (artists & activists) in various disciplines from drama to dance, from singing to instrumental music presentations. The purpose of this event is to highlight various topics including the Malcolm X birthplace and the development of the landmark, to celebrate & educate the community, particularly the youth about our history, to share our culture through various art forms with an emphasis on hip hop, to promote communalism and to introduce and observe various principles concerning the overall health and well being of the community. This committee will also conduct workshops throughout the year.

Shabazz Garden

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:43:54 -0500

The community garden program will promote collective community effort and leadership in North Omaha. Participants will grow fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers. This will help families save money on their food bills, and improve the aesthetics in the neighborhood. The program seeks to foster positive self esteem & youth peace (violence prevention) by promoting fellowship between youth and elders, entrepreneurialism, a healthy mental and physical state of being, cleaner air & environment, healthy eating habits & agricultural education for our community.