Now, AYA offers Full-time Online Home School Scholarships to students displaced from New Orleans.

We also know that the Afrikan humanity and spirit in us has swelled to gargantuan, s/heroic proportions. This we celebrate, and this we encourage us to build upon. Below, we

• Applaud just a couple organizations and individuals who have stepped up to do what we have to do for our people (though there are many more) AND
• Remind you of Baba Clarke's challenge and direction to us.

Directed by one of AYA's Warriors and Healers Family member, Oya Toni Oliver, Roots Adoption agency was on the job collecting food and essentials, getting folks out of hotels into homes, etc. 

	Roots Adoption Agency, one of the few Black adoption agencies in the country.

Oya says: "We know the capacity in our community to take care of our own and I wanted to provide an avenue for us to help us!  With a few calls and a lot of prayers, we have received commitments for money, clothes, toiletries, furniture, and housing.  We will also have received commitments for health care services through Morehouse MC, psychological support from Makungu Akinyela and an email has gone out to 100 Black Women.  We will be making sure that the displaced families get what they are entitled to from the government and other national services that are raking in $$$ hand over fist..."

Roots already has a network and system for supporting our families and has since 1993 been connecting displaced children to family. Please support their work

Over the weekend in ATL, the Red Cross was closed to celebrate Labor Day, Our people who poured in from New Orleans needing baths, clean clothing, food and shelter were met with locked RED CROSS door and a sign reading "Closed until Tuesday. Where our people had hoped for  relief,  again they were stranded. Again, a door slammed in their faces in the time of their greatest need while millions pour into the Red Cross coiffeurs. Looks of despair again fell across their faces.

A hero in real life, like the one he played in Sankofa, (Nobel Ali) Afemo Omilami, who is the Executive Director of Hosea Williams Feed the Hungry, said go put a sign on the door to tell people to come here; we will help them.

	Big ups to the Hosea Williams Feed the Hungry Program and others alike who have continued to step up (working round the clock) to supply the basic needs of our people.

CAUTION:

DO NOT, DO NOT, NOT, NOT!  SEND MONEY TO THE RED CROSS! DON'T SEND MONEY TO NATIONAL CHARITIES. PLACE IT LOCALLY OR WITH PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT YOU KNOW ARE HELPING OUR PEOPLE.

As we give now, let's also strategize, raise our children and educate our children  to answer the ultimate questions put forth by our beloved ancestor, Baba John Henrik Clarke: How will we stay on this earth? How will we be housed? How will we be fed? How will we be educated? How will we be defended?

AYA Educational Institute, directed by Afiya Madzimoyo, M.S.W., and Baba Wekesa Madzimoyo since 1998 has provided quality educational alternatives and resources for children of African descent. We are an African-centered institution providing an educational and social environment that is rich in our past and culture with the goal of teaching our students to succeed in their current and future responsibilities to themselves, their families, our community, our people and the world (in that order).