Support the African Village Survival Initiative Programs
African development in African hands

$47,000 needed to outfit kitchen

The Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, FL is a working center for economic development. The African People's Education and Defense Fund (APEDF) is working to equip the Uhuru House with a commercial kitchen for community based economic development projects.

To see the complete list of needed equipment and donate funds to this project, please visit the APEDF Web site. APEDF is a registered non-profit (IRS 501c3) organization, so donations are tax-deductible.

APEDF is also planning to outfit the Uhuru House with a recording studio as an institution of international African culture. Check back for updates on that project.

A reason to donate

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.

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.

Ironiff Ifoma, Uhuru House Director

“With 71% of our community in south St. Petersburg living at or below the poverty level, we must pull together collectively and create self-sustaining institutions that bring about community commerce. These institutions will be models that can be reproduced in every city.”

Tamara Dzimbahwe, Youth Programs and Special Events Coordinator

“The recording studio will give our community the opportunity to put their talents out while developing self-sustaining jobs. Our young people are facing 40% unemployment.”

APEDF working with All African People's Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) to tranform conditions in African communities throughout the U.S. and Africa

The All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (www.developmentforafrica.org) and the African People’s Education & Defense Fund (www.apedf.org), have established the African Village Survival Intiative (AVSI), building institutions, programs and campaigns.

Uhuru Furniture stores

Community Gym and Wellness Center

Collective gardens and rainwater harvesting

Community Fishing, Oloshoro, Sierra Leone

Donate securely online now through the APEDF website.