Mission
Ubuntu Village Works is an organization dedicated to creating Culturally Responsive healing spaces and helping organizations become more culturally responsive both inward and outward facing.
Vision
A community where Black people can be their best selves physically, mentally, emotionally, and Spiritually. They have access to all the resources they need to find, achieve, and maintain their wellness as they define it. All disparities are eliminated, and Black people have unrestricted access to culturally responsive systems, services, and supports.
Philosophy & Values
Philosophy & Values
The foundational values for Ubuntu Village Works/ Healers Village
The Nguzo Saba
Umoja (oo-MO-jah): Unity- To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
Kujichagulia (koo-jee-chah-GOO-lee-ah)- Self-determination. To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
Ujima (oo-JEE-mah)- Collective Work and Responsibility. To build and maintain our community together and to make our Brother’s and sister’s problems, our problems and to solve them together.
Ujamaa (oo-jah-MAH-ah)- Cooperative Economics. To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
Nia (NEE-ah): Purpose- To make as our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Kuumba (koo-OOM-bah)- Creativity. To do always as much as we can, in the way that we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful than when we inherited it.
Imani (ee-MAH-nee): Faith-To believe with all our hearts in our parents, our teachers, our leaders, our people and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
The Principles Of Maat
Truth
the ability to understand the difference between the real and the unreal. Of course, this is subject to the definition of reality. In this interpretation, reality is grounded in the belief of the Greatest Goodness, that which permeates all that exists, that all living creatures are sacred, and all are spiritual beings deserving of respect and honor.
Justice
the state in which there is equity for all persons, for all creatures and for the planet on which all of these rely for life. Equity means that all have equal opportunity for basic needs to be met (food, shelter, water, safety, medical care, dignity, respect, community…), to live in peace, to fully and meaningfully participate and contribute to society, to offer gifts, talents, and or essence, toward the good of the whole.
Harmony
the state of being in which different expressions of Mother Nature’s (God/Goddesses) Spirit, humans, animals, plants, etc., move together in ways that create alignment and beauty. Each expression must be authentic and express fully all that it is created to be. It is only through authenticity that harmony can truly be achieved and occur naturally when each entity is being true to itself — to its spiritual reality.
Balance
a state in which the internal and external environments of an individual, or group are aligned with the Goddess, Mother Nature, one another and the rest of creation. It is the experience of existing in the place where opposites meet, the creation point, where new life is generated, and new possibilities come into being.
Order
a state of being in which things are arranged in ways that are uncluttered, free of excess, clear.
Propriety
means to be and to do what is right, according to the truth that all living creatures are spiritual beings and deserve to exist. This means to do no harm to another being, creature or aspect of the Goddess, beginning with self.
Reciprocity
is the reality that what comes around, goes around. There is a motion, rhythm of cause and effect, give and take, forward and backward to every aspect of creation.