Chicago, IL 60615 USA
Welcome to African Development Plan
The Vision and mission
The African Development Plan is a CALL TO ACTION to all African Descendant People worldwide to unite and take pride in our African identity. To begin to study our collective history, assess our communities’ assets, resources and needs and focus our attention and skills in creating and implementing Sustainable Solutions that meet Africa and her Diaspora’s numerous challenges. Taking an African Centered approach to Education and Leadership Development and creating the Next Generation of Leaders who will put African people's interest first.
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African Development Plan is about improving the lives of the Global African Community, as such our work is local in every place that we may live.
THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE USA
Many do not understand the struggles that African descendants people living in the USA experience on a daily basis. Recent news about police killings is nothing new and is but the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the genocide the Black population is facing in so many areas of our lives from life expectancy, health, education, housing, lack of economic wealth and public safety etc.
Why should we have to warn our children everyday just to keep them alive. Why can't a Black person stop at a white persons door to seek assistance, without being shot at?
We are living in a very racist and hostile environment and it is affecting our health and long term sustainability.
AS SUCH THIS WEBSITE WILL ALSO FOCUS ON THE PARADIGM SHIFT THAT IS NEEDED AS WE MOVE FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO HUMAN RIGHTS AND OUR PATH TO SELF DETERMINATION FOR THE AFRICAN DESCENDANT IN THE USA. We will no longer tolerate the genocide against our people. We must now move beyond Civil Rights which have failed to protect us and take our case to the United Nation and Inter-American Court, as we have exhausted domestic remedies.
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THE AFRICAN CONTINENT
And we will simultaneously highlight the work of Africans on the continent as they too were mislead and ill prepared for their so called independence. And the little progress made for the masses of the people after over 50+ years of independence on the continent must be addressed and the Western nations and now China role in this must be analyzed and dealt with.
There must be accountability for why the continent with the richest resources has the poorest people. Africa's leaders must be held accountable and given the support they need to lead.
Fresh leadership is needed and much more input from the youth who are the majority on the continent. They must be developed to meet Africa's needs in the 21st Century.
Africa's Vision 2063 and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Action Plans lay out a vision for Africa which requires African people with the expertise to design and implement sustainable solutions. Many African living in the Diaspora are highly skilled; but underutilized. What if they could be encouraged to return home where their talent could be utilized to address the needs of our communities there. HOW GOOD THAT WOULD BE.
It is a time for all African people no matter where you are to understand WE ARE ONE PEOPLE. We are in CRISIS and we demand CHANGE. Now we must become the change we wish to see in the world.
Will you join us?
WHAT WE DO
African Development Plan provides "Connect the Dots" Research and Data presentations as a Subject Matter Expert on issues impacting African descendants in the USA, the Diaspora and on the African Continent from an African Centered Perspective utilizing International Standards and a Human Rights framework.
African Development Plan believes in teamwork and collaboration and accomplishes its goals through a group of partners who are experts in their own fields.
OUR PROGRAMS in 2022 will include:
- African Centered Leadership Development
- Entrepreneurship Training
- Agriculture/ Farming Projects in the USA /Diaspora /Africa to create Next Generation Black Farmers and Agripreneurs.
- African Centered Curriculum
- Stakeholder Engagement
UPDATE ON CHICAGO's REPARATION COMMISSION VOTE
Read here
It would “signal a new page in the history between this city and its Black citizens,” said Kamm Howard, co-chair of the National Coalition of Blacks For Reparations in America.
Howard said racism against Chicago’s Black community began when Jean Baptiste DuSable was “run out of the city he founded by racist whites and the emergent system of white supremacy.”
A “reparations triage,” using the “limited resources” of the city would need to be directed to five pillars of reparations work recognized under international law, Howard said.
- Cessation that guarantees a non-repetition, including an end of “police terrorism” and the creation of civilian oversight of the police department.
- Restitution, including business development, wealth building and housing initiatives.
- Compensation, in the form of tuition waivers and business and housing grants.
- Satisfaction, by repairing the dignity of people descended from slavery through cultural institutions, curriculum changes and apologies.
- Rehabilitation, which COVID-19 has highlighted, is the need for research in to the “transgenerational genetic injury” and transmission of trauma caused by enslavement and centuries of inequity.
June 5, 2020
The vote was Yes today for the Chicago Reparations Commission before the Health and Human Relations Sub-Committee!
Why does Mayor Lori Lightfoot not support repairing the harm done to the African Americans in Chicago? REPARATIONS NOW!
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Funds will help cover:
Research and Community Data Analysis
Education and Outreach
Leadership Academy
African Centered Curriculum
Agriculture/ Farming Projects & Entrepreneurial Training and Micro-Financing
We are a registered 501c3 in the state of Illinois, USA.
