North Oakland Tour Event: Africa’s Future in African Hands Wednesday, April 18, 2012. 6:30pm until 9:00pm. Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA http://www.facebook.com/events/249803935113092/
East Oakland Tour Event: Africa’s Future in African Hands Thursday, April 19, 2012. 6:30pm Uhuru House at 7911 MacArthur Blvd in East Oakland http://www.facebook.com/events/383756501643063/
6:30 Welcome & Reception 7pm Statements by AAPDEP leaders & statement by Samsarah Morgan of the Nia Healing Center 7:30 Presentation by Nurse Mary Koroma 8pm Fundraising, Q&A, Close-Out
The All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) is honored to announce the U.S. tour of Nurse Mary Koroma, midwife and AAPDEP leader from Sierra Leone, West Africa. In Sierra Leone Nurse Mary has built a nation-wide network of AAPDEP clinics, offices, nursing schools and self-reliance institutions in every province of the country through the community based AAPDEP organization that involves over 500 mothers, medical workers and community members.
In a deeply impoverished country where women rarely have the opportunity to give birth in a hospital or under sterile conditions, Nurse Mary has delivered over 3,000 babies without the loss of one mother or child. Though Sierra Leone has vast natural resources including diamonds, oil and bauxite, much of the population must subsist on less than a dollar a day. To make sure that the Infant and Maternal Wellness Project can benefit all women regardless of income, Nurse Mary and AAPDEP started a cassava farm and fishing projects to raise resources for the clinics and the community. In addition Ms Koroma created a nursing program that recently celebrated its first graduating class.
AAPDEP Tour manager Camilla Hippolyte explained, “This is not a charity project. This is a grassroots initiative. We are asking for support and solidarity for the AAPDEP work from the SF Bay Area community. We also see similar conditions facing African women in the US regarding childbirth, infant mortality and maternal health. We want to be able to address those needs as well.”
For more info, email oakland@uhurusolidarity.org or call 510-394-1780.
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