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OUR HISTORY

Ujaama Inc. is a nonprofit organization, located in Baltimore, Maryland. We are committed to preparing African-American youth to become effective leaders by understanding their purpose, appreciating their unique identity, and building their self-esteem. 

 

Our purpose is to educate and empower the youth with the

skills, mindset, and resources to attain economic wealth and empowerment. To understand the value of investing in their community, and to become entrepreneurs in the business world.

Ujaama Inc.

 

The Mission

  • To raise the consciousness of all nations and to keep cognizant the unerring truth of the contributions made to society and to the world by the African-American people

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  • To commemorate the enslavement of the African people

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  • To serve as a reminder that the emancipation of the African-American people was bought with an inestimable price

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  • To serve as one of the recorders and keepers of the annals of the struggles and sacrifices of our past ancestors

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  • To preserve our ancestral spirit of perseverance and determination and wear them as phylacteries as we continue our quest for freedom and equality 

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  • To continue to keep alive the spirit of excellence, striving toward equality for all people, as we reach forward to the millennium

  • The Freedom Bracelet is worn in remembrance of our ancestors who survived The Middle Passage Voyage with courage and fortitude and as a reminder of our rich African heritage.

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  • The Freedom Bracelet is a symbol of a peoples' physical bondage; the broken links serve as a reminder of the struggles we as a people have overcome and the struggles that still lie before us.

a freedom bracelet

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