The Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (SRDC) and Sehwah Liberia encourage concerned activists and members of the Global African Family to Contribute to our Inaugural Summer Cultural Exchange Program.
Registrations for the Program are currently being accepted. The Program is designed for high school students from Africa and the Diaspora who wish to learn about various aspects of the Global African Family and make connections with each other.
Donations are also graciously accepted. Online, the PayPal link https://paypal.me/srdcinternational?locale.x=en_US can be used for donations as well as for registrations and tuition payments.
Below is a brief description of the Program, which can be read in full on the websites https://kuumbareport.com and http://www.srdcinternational.org:
SRDC Announces the Summer Cultural Exchange Program Virtual Camp to benefit the Liberia Library Project
SRDC Summer Cultural Exchange Program
A Summer Camp in Support of the Liberia Library Project
Produced and Sponsored by Sehwah-Liberia and the Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (SRDC)
Overview
The Liberian Summer Cultural Exchange Program will recruit 84 high school students. This includes students born of families from different countries in Africa, and the descendants of kidnapped Africans in the Diaspora.
The students will learn the necessary skills to become specialists doing effective research in the area of their choice. The finished product will be utilized as exhibits in the 21st Century Liberian Library Project Facility.
This cultural interaction will broaden the students’ view and vision of Africa, leading to more effective communication, along with developing skills in project management, compromise/consensus, negotiation, decision making and problem solving.
The success and completion of the Pilot Summer Cultural Exchange Program will lead to a trip to Liberia for the students who complete this summer program successfully. They would then become a part of the first phase of building the Library in Monrovia, Liberia (scheduled for completion by the year 2027). The Library will be the cornerstone of information accessible to Africans around the world in search of our common history and culture.
For full details, visit the following posts, which include fillable Registration Forms and a PayPal link for registration and tuition fees:
http://srdcinternational.org/?p=3315
Detailed questions about the Program can be directed to Mama Maisha Washington at maishawashington_865@hotmail.com.
For a little background information on the work of Sehwah Liberia, check out this story about their recent Food Distribution Project for families in Liberia who are suffering from food insecurity as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. The project was carried out by Sehwah Liberia with support from the Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (SRDC):
http://srdcinternational.org/?p=3396
If you are not registering for the Summer Cultural Exchange Program (the Virtual Summer Camp) but would like to make a donation to SRDC’s effort, the same PayPal link can be used:
https://paypal.me/srdcinternational?locale.x=en_US
We are looking forward to a rewarding and successful Virtual Summer Camp. Proceeds will support SRDC and Sehwah Liberia’s program to build the first-ever Public Library serving the African nations of Liberia, Cote D’Ivoire, Sierra Leone and Guinea-Conakry.