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Benefit for UAACC’s Leaders of Tomorrow Children’s Home & Water Project in Tanzania

 

ON THURSDAY APRIL 17^TH a concert benefit for UAACC will take place at the historic TEATRO LATEA in NYC’s Lower East Side. It will include a short screening about UAACC’s dynamic programs; a meet-and-greet discussion with Mama Charlotte O’Neal; an excerpt from the exciting new play Black Panther Women; performances by powerful Youth poets; Live acoustic concert by award-winning singer-activist Maya Azucena; and a rousing musical presentation by Mama Charlotte O’Neal herself.

 

 

United African Alliance Community Center (UAACC), located in Imbaseni Village outside of Arusha, Tanzania, became a registered NGO in 1991. UAACC was founded by Mzee Pete O’Neal and Mama Charlotte Hill O’Neal who were born in Kansas City in the U.S.A. Original members of the Black Panther Party (Kansas City Chapter), the O’Neal’s have been living in Tanzania since 1972 and in Imbaseni Village for more than three decades. There, they have continued to apply the values of building community and nurturing the greatest potential in under-served youth. UAACC’s motto is Sharing Knowledge for Community Development and this is aptly reflected in the many community outreach programs that are provided for youth and elders in the surrounding area.

 

Mama Charlotte Hill O’Neal, aka Mama C, returns to the United States each year to raise funds to continue the valuable work of UAACC.  This year it is imperative that funds be raised to refurbish UAACC’s water tank that provides clean water for the entire population of Imbaseni Village. Without this water tank, women and children (in their traditional duty) will be forced to spend many hours a day carrying water in buckets on their heads for many miles. Several years ago, with the help of their late comrade, Geronimo ji Jaga and his KUJI Foundation, UAACC dug a well on their grounds. This enabled more than 500 families the opportunity to get a steady supply of water on a regular basis without having to resort to miles and miles of walking effort.