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Abwenzi African Studies (Letters from Africa)
Address: PO Box 1962, Basalt, CO 81621
Tel: 970-927-2689 Fax: 970-927-2690 Email: abwenzi@rof.net
http://www.lettersfromafrica.org
Abwenzi African Studies is a nonprofit organization that promotes cross-cultural education, friendships and understanding between Americans and Africans. . Letters from Africa is an Emmy Award winning children’s special. Young pen pals from Colorado and Malawi exchange letters, pictures and videos in this special documentary. We are expanding our pen pal and educational opportunities to students nationwide with school programs, study guides and videos. Currently, Abwenzi is compiling a "Letters from Africa"/Malawi Study Guide to help teachers provide more African Studies opportunities in their classrooms. The guide is designed for use in grades 3-5, 7-9, 10-12.
Africa Centre
Address: 1405 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO 80302
Tel: 303-442-2637 Email: info@africacentre.org
Africa Centre is a non-profit project aimed at increasing social awareness and knowledge of Africa by providing information, materials and services to the local and national community. Africa Centre also seeks to enhance the knowledge of children and adults about African politics, natural resources, arts and culture. Resources and services include a reference library, slides, videos, music, curriculum guides, workshops and a calendar of local events.
Africa Today Associates, Inc
Contact: Eileen McCarthy Arnolds, Executive Administrator
Tel: 303-871-4444 Email: emcarnolds@yahoo.com
Jim Scarritt, President, James.Scarritt@colorado.edu
Ed Hawley, Vice President, edhawley@juno.com
Peter Van Arsdale, Treasurer, pvanarsd@du.edu
Address: 2200 S. Josephine St., International House, Denver, CO 80208
http://www.du.edu/gsis/sfa/africatoday.htm
Africa Today Associates is an organization based at the University of Denver involved in research, human rights advocacy, and scholarship on African affairs. Our purpose is to spread knowledge and concern about the human rights crisis in Africa. Africa Today organizes the annual Julius Nyerere Memorial Seminar that brings students, scholars, and activists together to discuss issues related to human rights in Africa.
African Awareness Expos, Inc.
Contact: Emei Endinma
Address: 16574 E Kansas Place, Aurora, CO 80013
Tel: 303-750-8514 Cell: 720-338-5171
African Awareness Expos is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting African culture. We provide education on African culture in the areas of African arts, crafts, music and history. Programs include African music and cuisine, arts, and fashion. These programs are offered to schools, corporations, government agencies, churches and festivals.
Afrizen
Contact: Adenike Parker
Address: PO Box 54, Broomfield, CO 80038
Tel: 303-665-0718 Email: info@afrizen.com
Learn conversational Swahili in ten weeks. Swahili is the beautiful and poetic language of East Africa. Spoken by approximately 100 million people in several countries, it is Africa’s most widely understood language. Our Swahili courses are based on the total immersion approach to language instruction. Classes are taught in Boulder and Aurora.
Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library
Contact: Terry Nelson
Address: 2401 Welton Street, Denver, CO 80205
Tel: 720-865-2401 Fax: 720-865-2081 Email: tnelson@denver.lib.co.us
http://www.aarl.denverlibrary.org
Our Mission is to serve as an educational and cultural resource for the people of Denver, Colorado, and the world, focusing on the history, literature, art, music, religion, and politics of African Americans in Colorado and throughout the Rocky Mountain West.
Conference on World Affairs
University of Colorado
Address: 1424 15th St, UCB Box 465, Boulder, CO 80309-0465
Tel: 303-492-2525 Fax: 303-492-3934 Email: cwa@colorado.edu
The University of Colorado's Conference on World Affairs was founded in 1948, originally as a forum on international affairs. The CWA has expanded rapidly and now every year in April approximately 100 participants representing a wide range of backgrounds gather in Boulder for what the New York Times calls "a week-long extravaganza of discussion and debate" on over 175 non-academic, cross-disciplinary panels, plenary sessions and performances.
Ghada Kanafani Elturk
Address: PO Drawer H, Boulder, CO 80306
Email: elturkg@boulder.lib.co.us
Boulder Public Library Outreach Librarian
Global Education Fund
Address: 1057 Eighth Street, Boulder, CO 80302
Tel: 303-415-9935 Email: eliza@globaleducationfund.org
http://www.globaleducationfund.org
The Global Education Fund (GEF) is a nonprofit charitable organization working to see that books get in to the hands of the most needy children in the world. To date GEF has sent aid to fifteen countries, two of which are in Africa (Uganda and Ghana). GEF sends books primarily to children living in orphanages and is run by volunteers and interns from the University of Colorado-Boulder.
The Institute for African American Leadership
Contact: Stephanie King
Address: 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80302
Tel: 303-444-3040 Email: Malaika Pettigrew at malaikap@mindspring.com
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/ubwbv or http://www.africaproject.org
The Institute for African-American Leadership (IAAL) is a yearlong leadership and community development/service project for students between the ages of 12 and 18.
Institute of International Education, Rocky Mountain Regional Center
Contact: Karen De Bartolome, Director
Address: 104 Broadway, Suite 500, Denver, CO 80203
Tel: 303-837-0788 Fax: 303-837-1409 Email: kdebartolome@iie.org
http://www.iie.org or http://www.denverworldaffairscouncil.org
The Institute of International Education (IIE) is a global organization founded in 1919 and committed to fostering a world of international cooperation. We support activities and initiatives related to international business, diplomacy, education, the environment, world hunger and arms control. Members of the Rocky Mountain Regional Center of IIE enjoy opportunities to participate in regional IIE programs, including activities sponsored by IIE’s three divisions: Denver World Affairs Council; Fulbright, Scholarship and Exchange Programs; and International Visitor Program.
International English Center
Mailing address: 63 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0063
Address: 1030 13th Street, Boulder, CO 80302
Tel: 303-492-5547 Fax: 303-492-5515 Email: ieccu@colorado.edu
The International English Center, established in 1975, helps advance the mission of the university through English language training and cultural orientation.
Kudzidza Foundation
Tel: 720-327-3570 Email: bethie@zulazula.com
The Kudzidza Foundation is a non-profit working to establish and maintain a bridge of mutual education between the U.S. and Zimbabwe. In the Shona language of Zimbabwe, Kudzidza means “education”. We offer programs to support the lives of children and adults of Zimbabwe as well as other African communities. We work with children and adults in the United States to share the traditional lifestyles of the African people. Songs are used in the African culture to pass on values, history and traditions. The best way to educate America is through our dynamic performances.
Moyo Nguvu
Address: 1660 Gilpin Street, Denver, CO 80218
Tel: 303-377-2511 Fax: 303-321-1788 Email: moyonguvu@afrikanarts.org
Moyo was founded in 1990 and is the first Pan-African cultural and healing arts center in Colorado. We teach holistic medicine and maintain a clinic, as well as implement one of the oldest and most successful youth rites of passage programs in the USA. We teach children and adults about African/African-American culture through African dance, music, martial arts, history, language and values. We offer online interactive classes as well as a variety of workshops and performances.
Read More Books and Books for Africa
Contact: Awon Atuire
Tel: 303-355-4148 Email: matuire@regis.edu
"Read More Books" and the Africa Centre's "Books for Africa" program facilitate linkages between local Colorado schools and schools in Africa. The central mission of these partnerships is to promote reading and literacy, by responding to the material needs of rural schools in countries such as Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe. In fulfilling these needs, critical educational supplies are provided to African schools, and students in Colorado gain experience in international community service.
Our name ‘Read More Books’ is derived from an inspirational message from the children of Cape Coast Castle Children’s library, our first community project in Ghana.
Tinansa Intercultural Service Learning Program
Contact: Melissa Nix
Tel: 303-458-4217 Email: mnix@regis.edu
Tinansa offers a consciously balanced academic and experiential learning program that explores the connections between West African history and heritage and African American social thought and experience. It is a cooperative effort of Regis University, participating Denver schools, the Africa Centre, Greater Park Hill Community, Inc., and Cape Coast Children’s Library.
In 2004, 10 selected high school and university students combined academic study at Regis University, service experience in Cape Coast, Ghana, and community action in the Denver area. The project allowed these students to work side-by-side with African school children to renovate/expand a children’s library. The Children’s library of Cape Coast Castle was chosen because in addition to the need for resources and the focus on literacy, the very location of the library in one of the most renowned former slave forts served as an important location to pursue some of the spiritual and healing work that could come about as a part of the experience.
The program is organizing another experience for the summer of 2006 and will be open to Regis undergraduate students.
AfricAid
Address: 25958 Genesee Trail Rd PMB-234, Golden, CO 80401
Tel: 720-746-1792 Email: info@africaid.com
AfricAid is a non-profit organization, founded in 2000, which works to provide African girls with educational opportunities. AfricAid really began in 1996 with the dream of an eleven-year-old girl, Ashley Shuyler, who went on safari to Kenya and Tanzania. There, she witnessed real poverty for the first time. Ashley's dream was to focus on a way to help those who might not otherwise be able to afford or even have access to educational opportunities.
African AIDS Orphan Project
Mount Calvary Lutheran Church
Contact: Carl Forsberg
Address: 3485 Stanford Court, Boulder, CO 80303
Tel: 303-494-1215 Fax: 303-554-1469 Email: bouldercarl@msn.comhttp://www.mountcalvary-boulder.org/Ministries/africa/africa_index.htm
Based in Tanzania, this African lead project deals with care, education and prevention issues for AIDS sufferers and/or AIDS orphans. 100% of funds go to Africa. No administrative, travel or other expenses will be deducted. Volunteers are also needed for education and work trips for supported projects in the Tanzania area.
Alliance for Youth Achievement
Address: 534 Commons Drive Suite 100, Golden, CO 80401
Tel: 303-526-5219 Fax: 303-526-2922 Email: info@allforyouth.org
Helping orphans and street children around the world by partnering with innovative organizations doing wonderful work caring for and educating the children.
BCAP Embraces the World
Contact: Thomas M. Hopson
Address: 2118 14th Street, Boulder, CO 80302
Tel: 303-492-3524 Email: Thomas.Hopson@colorado.edu
BCAP Embraces the World (BEW) is a group affiliated with the Boulder County Aids Project (BCAP). It was founded in 2001 by board members of BCAP along with other professionals in Boulder County to increase local awareness of the global problems as a result of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in order to obtain more support from the local community. Typically, each of us involved with BEW is affiliated with some non-profit organization overseas that works with the AIDS plight. We meet under the umbrella of BEW for mutual fundraising, educational outreach projects and general support.
Bead for Life
Address: 1630 30th St Suite A, PO Box 349, Boulder, CO 80301
Email: Torkin@beadforlife.com
The Beadforlife project creates economic and heartfelt bridges between the tribal people of Uganda and citizens of North America through unique, handmade jewelry. This project generates income for the beaders and their families, connecting people in Africa and North America through understanding, caring and mutual respect. Our method of selling this jewelry is through personal contact, woman to woman, in private gatherings in homes, businesses, schools, conferences, concerts, fairs and farmers' markets, and through our website.
Center for African Affairs
Contact: Godwin Omane, Executive Director
Address: 526 Crossing Circle, Castle Rock, CO 80108
Tel: 303-790-0150 Fax: 303-790-0150 Email: Afroaffairs@aol.com
We are a non-profit organization for the welfare and improvement of children and women in Africa.
Colorado Friends of the Lost Boys of Sudan
Contact: Jean Wood
Tel: 303-441-5658 Email: jeanwood@boulderco.com
http://www.coloradolostboysofsudan.org
The Lost Boys of Sudan were among nearly 16,000 boys (ages 5-11) forced to flee from their Southern Sudan Villages in 1987 when Islamic militants attacked their villages killing most all men, women, and girls. The boys that survived have spent years in a refugee camp in Kenya. In 2001 the US government helped to resettle approx. 3,600 in the US, nine of whom have landed in the Boulder area.
Colorado-Ghana Children’s Fund
Address: 1820 Lee Street, Lakewood, CO 80202
Tel: 303-202-1979 Email: info@cgcfund.org
A non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to moving Street Children in Ghana from the streets to schools.
Consortium for Community Centered Comprehensive Child Care Corp
Contact: Susan Fox
Address: 1740 High Street, Denver, CO 80218
Tel: 303-393-8650 Email: sfoxjambo@msn.com
http://www.kilimanjarochildrenshospital.org
In 1984 the Consortium for Community Centered Comprehensive Child Care (C6) was established in Denver, Colorado as an all volunteer, tax exempt, charitable organization to raise money to build a children’s hospital in Tanzania, East Africa. As a result of our efforts, the Kilimanjaro Children's Hospital (known in Tanzania as the Selian Lutheran Hospital) was completed and serves 40 to 50 thousand patients annually. A second hospital, seven miles away in the city of Arusha, is now underway and will be known as the Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre.
DAWA
Contact: Anna Manega
Address: UNA-USA, Colorado Division, 980 Grant Street, Denver, CO 80203
Tel: 303-832-4765
DAWA is a coalition of individuals, organizations and the City of Denver working to improve the health of all people, especially children in Denver and Africa.
Denver for Africa
Contact: Kirstin Osgood
Address: 3231 West 30th Avenue, Denver, CO 80211
Tel: 303-475-0678 Email: info@denverforafrica.com
http://www.denverforafrica.com/
Denver for Africa is committed to causing a movement that is owned by citizens; so that we give a voice to community, a bridge to global partnerships and a foundation for bold, effective leadership.
Ecumenical Refugee Services
Contact: Patricia Vorwerk
Address: 190 E 9th Avenue, Denver, CO 80203
Tel: 303-860-0128 Email: Patricia@ersden.org
Ecumenical Refugee Services (ERS) helps to resettle legal refugees and asylees, by providing them assistance with educational needs, family and social services, medical attention, employment, and cultural orientation. The main goal of ERS is to help refugees become self-sufficient and independent as quickly as possible
Education for All
Contact: Linda Nechrony
Address: 1235 St Paul St, Denver, CO 80206
Tel: 303-863-7080 Email: EducationForAll@yahoo.com
Education for All is a Colorado project helping township schools in South Africa. We work with a variety of school programs – adults as well as youth. School library books and teaching aids are a priority. In addition, EFA is working to set up township high school computer centers.
Eleos Project Sudan
Cherry Hills Community Church
Contact: Mark Purington
Address: 3900 E Grace Blvd, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126
Tel: 303-229-1044 Email: mpurington@eleosproject.org
Since 1999, Cherry Hills Community Church Discover the World teams have traveled to southern Sudan to encourage, support and deliver humanitarian aid to the people of Sudan.
HOPE Bracelet Project: Helping Organizations Promote Education
Cunningham Foundation
Contact: Betsy Wiersma
Address: 10795 E Powers Drive, Englewood, CO 80111
Tel: 720-200-0271 Email: Betsy@betsywiersma.comhttp://cindybeads.com/projectmercy.htm
Artists and craftsmen from the American bead community have come together with this big idea to support vocational education, medical care and community development for Project Mercy in Africa. In 2004, 1000 HOPE Bracelets made by the Women's Skills Enhancement Program in Yetebon, Ethiopia, and featuring a special commemorative bead and clasp will be sold in Denver and on-line raising $100,000. In 2004 in Africa, participants were trained in the actual lampwork bead making thus seeding a new source of revenue. 100% of the HOPE Bracelet sales price of $100 is returning to Project Mercy. See web site for more details and link to bracelet sales.
Kenyan Children Foundation
Contact: Joanne LeClair
Address: PO Box 261116, Highlands Ranch, CO 80163-1116
Tel: 303-773-0919 Email: helpchildren@kenyanchildrenfoundation.org
http://www.kenyanchildrenfoundation.org
The Kenyan Children Foundation (KCF) was founded in 1994. Our mission is “…to impact people’s lives through compassionate involvement with Kenya’s street children.” Since its inception, KCF has committed its resources (financial and volunteers) to providing basic human needs (food, shelter, clothing, medical services) and educational opportunities to homeless and destitute children in Kenya.
Lalmba
Address: 7685 Quartz Street, Arvada, CO 80007
Tel: 303-420-1810 Fax: 303-467-1232 Email: lalmba@aol.com
Lalmba is an African word meaning "A Place of Hope". We are a group of committed professionals who search out the most remote parts of Africa in which to work - places where other organizations have chosen not to work. We specialize in providing medical care to people who have no place else to turn, and to orphan children who recognize us as their family now. Our work is not easy - but it certainly is rewarding.
The Mali Assistance Project
Contact: Karen Marx
Address: PO Box 20902, Boulder, CO 80308-3902
Tel: 303-415-0106 Email: info@maliassist.org or maliassistance@comcast.net
The Mali Assistance Project (MAP) was founded in 1999 to help the villagers of Foutaka Zambougou, Mali, West Africa and surrounding areas to survive immediate crises of famine, drought and disease, and to build a sustainable infrastructure for their future health and economic stability.
One World Running (formerly Shoes for Africa)
Contacts: Mike Sandrock or Ana Weir
Address: PO Box 2223, Boulder, CO 80306
Tel: 303-473-1314 or 303-828-4391
Email: anaweir@yahoo.com or sandrock@boulderrunning.com
http://www.boulderrunning.com/oneworldrunning/
Since 1986, a group of runners in Boulder, Colorado, has collected, washed and sent new and “near-new” athletic shoes, T-shirts and shorts, along with medicine and school and art supplies to needy athletes and children around the world. The group is a 100-percent volunteer organization.
Peace Corps Office on the CU-Boulder Campus
Address: UMC 1B72A, Campus Box 207, Boulder, CO 80309-0207
Tel: (303) 492-8454 Email: peacecor@colorado.edu
Peace Corps is an organization that sends volunteers to Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, South Pacific, Carribean, Central and South America. The volunteers work in a field of their choice, such as education, health care, sustainable agriculture, business/nonprofit development, info tech, engineering, forestry, HIV/AIDS awareness, and much more. The Peace Corps will pay for ALL expenses, including travel, room, board, monthly stipend, health and dental care, and also award the volunteer an additional $6000 at the end of their service.
Peace Corps (Denver)
Address: 1999 Broadway Suite 2205, Denver, CO 80202-3050
Tel: 800-424-8580 Fax: 303-844-7010
Peace Corps is an organization that sends volunteers to Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, South Pacific, Caribbean, Central and South America. The volunteers work in a field of their choice, such as education, health care, sustainable agriculture, business/nonprofit development, info tech, engineering, forestry, HIV/AIDS awareness, and much more. The Peace Corps will pay for ALL expenses, including travel, room, board, monthly stipend, health and dental care, and also award the volunteer an additional $6000 at the end of their service.
Peace Initiatives International-Africa (PII-A)
Contact: Karambu Ringera
Address: 2101 E Harvard Ave #108, Denver, CO 80210
Tel: 303-282-0877 Email: ringerambu@yahoo.com
Peace Initiatives International-Africa works with grassroots communities to overcome devastation of conflict and disease in Africa and further peace and justice issues on the continent.
Project C.U.R.E.
Address: 9055 East Mineral Circle Suite 110, Centennial, CO 80112
Tel: 303-792-0729 Fax: 303-792-0744 Email: projectcureinfo@projectcure.org
Since 1987, Project C.U.R.E. has delivered donated medical supplies and equipment to the most desperately ill and needy people in more than 100 countries around the world. Project C.U.R.E. is a registered trademark of the Benevolent Healthcare Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, humanitarian relief organization that collects medical surplus and donates it to developing countries.
Project Mercy
Contacts: Noel and Tammy Cunningham, Cunningham Foundation
Address: 10795 E Powers Drive, Englewood, CO 80111
Email: Tzheart@aol.comInternational relief ministry serves and has served African people over the last 25 years. Originally, Project Mercy provided emergency relief and relocation assistance to Ethiopian refugees. Their work now meets the needs of refugees in seven additional countries: Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Djibouti, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sudan, and also provides community development and self-help programs for people with desperate needs in Africa.
RhythmRide for Zimbabwe
Contact: Loren Mach
Address: PO Box 249, Eldorado Springs, CO 80025
Tel: 303-480-8878 Email: loren@zimwalk.org
RhythmRide for Zimbabwe is a 2000+ mile cycle tour along the Pacific Crest Trail from Canada to Mexico to raise awareness and monetary support to help fight poverty, starvation and AIDS in Zimbabwe. I will be sharing the beautiful Zimbabwe Shona music along the way on my journey. 100% of the money raised will be donated to the following non-profit organizations The Village Health Project, Nhimbe for Progress and Shungu DzeVana Trust.
United Children's Fund Inc
Address: PO Box 20341, Boulder, CO 80308
Tel: 800-615-5229 Fax: 303-469-4339 Email: United@unchildren.org
United Children's Fund provides financial assistance and humanitarian support to people living in some of the poorest regions of Sub-Sahara Africa. Assistance is focused on those living in the remote villages and rural areas where very little international and other outside aid is available. Since 1994, United Children's Fund has provided food, clothing, medical equipment and services, educational opportunities, housing, village workshops regarding AIDS education and prevention, and care for those suffering with the disease.
Urgent Action Fund
Address: 1123 Spruce St, Boulder, CO 80302
Tel: 303-442-2388 Fax: 303-442-2370
Email: urgentact@urgentactionfund.org
http://www.urgentactionfund.org
Urgent Action Fund is committed to a vision of human rights that is fully inclusive of the experiences and perspectives of women and girls. The Fund is both a grant maker and an initiator of programs, engaging in a range of activities to equip women’s human rights activists with the resources necessary to respond to emerging conflict or crisis.
Village by Village
Address: PO Box 1669, Nederland, CO 80466
Tel: 720-564-9612 Email: villagebyvillage@earthlink.net
A non-profit organization dedicated to training Tanzanians in becoming practitioners of Life Healing, a comprehensive and natural form of healthcare we have been practicing for nearly 25 years. Training will begin in the village of Usa River. After training, we will then help establish a teaching clinic, which will become a professional clinic run completely by the Tanzanians.
Water for People
Contact: Steve Werner, Executive Director
Address: 6666 W Quincy Ave, Denver, CO 80235
Tel: 303-734-3490 Fax: 303-734-3499 Email: swerner@waterforpeople.org
Water for People is an international nonprofit development organization committed to the long-term impact on increased access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation and health. Water for People helps the most impoverished people worldwide improve their quality of live by supporting sustainable drinking water, sanitation and hygiene projects. Water for People and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have formed a unique partnership called Water for Africa. The work of Water for Africa aims to help the growing number of urban poor in the unplanned and informal settlements of African cities obtain safe drinking water.
World Extremities
Address: 3992 Riviera Grove Suite 200, Colorado Springs, CO 80922
Tel: 719-237-3258 Email: worldextremities@adelphia.net
http://www.worldextremities.org
Our goal is to reach out to amputee mine victims throughout the most needed places in the world including Ethiopia, Kenya and Angola. We provide them with resources to obtain prosthetics and rehabilitation services in their locations. We also provide food for the families of these victims.
The African Community Center
Address: 1201 E Colfax Avenue Suite 201, Denver, CO 80218
Tel: 303-399-4500 Fax: 303-399-4502
http://www.africancommunitycenter.net
The African Community Center is a Program Office of the Ethiopian Community Development Council, Inc. Our goal is to help families and individuals integrate into the Denver community to become successful contributing members of society.
Circles of Ten: Women for World Peace
Contact: Sarah Hartzell
Address: PO Box 18923, Boulder CO 80308
Tel: 303-494-6503 Email: sarah@peacecircles.net
We envision a world community whose women, men and children are actively living in peace. Our mission is to make visible the worldwide culture of peace by gathering in circles to identify what peace means to us and to translate that vision into acts of courageous peacemaking in our personal lives, our communities and our world.
Colorado African Organization
Address: PO Box 471111, Aurora, CO 80047
Tel: 720-231-8632 Fax: 303-937-3798 Email: managementafrica@aol.com
http://coloradoafricanorganization.netfirms.com
Colorado African Organization was formed in August 2003, by a pioneering team of members from several countries from Africa. Our vision was to establish an organization that for the first time and with one voice would advocate for the issues that uniquely affect the entire African immigrant community in Colorado. Our mission as an organization is to foster greater unity among us, to increase the level of our participation in the activities of the Colorado society we live in, and to insure our inclusion and representation in dialogues affecting community policies and opportunities.
Colorado Heritage Camps
Contact: Pam Sweetser, Executive Director
Address: 2025 Elm St, Denver, CO 80207
Email: info@heritagecamps.org
We serve as a post adoption resource and advocate for children and families with diverse heritages. We accomplish this by facilitating annual heritage camps, which provide culturally relevant and family-centered experiences for every member of the family. Each summer we run a camp exclusively created for families who have adopted African American children or have children born in the African continent.
Ethiopian Students Association
Address: UMC #440 (Broadway and Euclid) University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/esa/frames.html
The purpose of the Ethiopian Students Association at the University of Colorado at Boulder is to bring Ethiopian students together. The Organization will work towards creating a strong community, furthering our knowledge about various aspects of the Ethiopian culture and advancing awareness of the Ethiopian culture at the University of Colorado and at the Boulder community.
Senegal Association
Contact: Samba Ndaiye
E-mail: n_samba@hotmail.com
Workshops about African issues are available.
South Africans in Colorado Club
Our club connects South Africans who live in Colorado. We have our own community of fellow South Africans; we organize braai's and other get-togethers throughout the year. Our club was founded with the purpose of serving fellow and ex-South Africans, whether living in or only visiting Colorado. We have no political affiliations and welcome members of any race.
Sudanese American International Corporation
Address: 2430 S University Blvd Suite 108, Denver, CO 80210
Tel: 303-722-0036 Fax: 303-722-2663
The mission of the Sudanese American International Corporation is to provide critical resettlement and community integration services to Sudanese refugees in Colorado. We were established as a non-profit in 2000. The founders are themselves Sudanese refugees who have been living in the United States for 3-5 years. We assist Sudanese refugees in coping with the myriad of cultural differences that exist between life in Sudan or Africa in general, and life in the Denver area. Services the organization has provided include translator assistance and guiding new arrivals through the process of adjusting to their new surroundings. We also provide practical help in obtaining education, employment, housing, food and health care.
Music and Dance
Adjei Abankwah
Address: 1502 Upland Avenue, Boulder, CO 80304
Tel: 303-449-2671 Email: aabankwa@yahoo.com
http://www.charliesounds.com or http://www.baobaofest.com
Professional West African Dancer and Instructor. Adjei Abankwah was the choreographer and principal dancer with Ghana Dance Ensemble for 11 years. In addition to dancing, he is an accomplished musician and composer. He plays a number of traditional African instruments including the flute, xylophone, bass marimba, and the drums. Adjei Abankwah and Charlie Sounds are available for dance and music performances.
African Roots
Address: 4700 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80301
Tel: 303-449-4885 Email: africanroots@kgnu.org
http://www.kgnu.org/africanroots/index.html
Jitjive, Juju, Rai, Soukous, African jazz, Mbaqanga, Afro Caribbean rhythms and much more. AFRICAN ROOTS is one of 88.5 KGNU's long lasting international music shows, on the air for about 20 years. It continues to entertain and inform African music listeners every Saturday, 4 to 6pm. Hosted by Jill Rosenbloom, Joe de Cordoba, and Bill Nyerges.
Kwasi Ampene
University of Colorado School of Music
Address: 301 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309
Tel: 303-492-6439 Email: kwasi.ampene@colorado.edu
http://stripe.colorado.edu/~ampene/
Kwasi specializes in music composition in oral cultures with emphasis on the Akan of Ghana, the sociology and aesthetics of music of Africa and the African Diaspora. He is also director of the University of Colorado Summer Program in Ghana and director of the African Ensemble Outreach Programs, which are funded by the University of Colorado Outreach Committee.
Bantaba World Dance and Music
Address: 691-B South Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305
Tel: 303-499-6484 Email: bantaba@dancingcircle.com
Offering African dance and drum performances and classes from Ghana, Senegal, Mali and more!
Black Hands Drum Ensemble
Contact: Keith Gill
Address: 6712 E 123rd Place, Thornton, CO 80601
Tel: (303) 450-1245
We are African slave descendants who perform songs, dance and drumming from Africa to the Americas.
Boulder Valley Music Makers
Contact: Bob Gailer
Address: 170 Forsythe Road, Nederland CO 80466-9623
Tel: 303-442-2625 Email: bgailer@alum.rpi.edu
Marimba classes and performances. Marimba building workshops.
Camp Merveilles
Address: 1721 Norwood Ave, Boulder, CO 80304
Tel: 303-402-1066 Email: fara@faratolno.com
This annual three day summer camp is a school for dance, drum, and the exchange of cultural information and history of Guinea, West Africa. The staff consists of members of the national dance and drum ensemble, Merveilles de Guinea.
Chimanimani African Marimba Ensemble
Contact: Mary Ellen Garrett or Karen Marx
Address: PO Box 3254, Estes Park, CO 80517
Tel: 303-415-2770 (Mary Ellen) or 303-449-1774 (Karen)
Email: mellenmail@yahoo.com or marx@boulder.net
Music from Zimbabwe and South Africa on marimba, mbira, and drums.
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance
Address: 119 Park Avenue West, Denver CO 80205
Tel: 303-295-1759 Fax: 303-295-1328 Email: cleodance@aol.com
http://www.cleoparkerdance.org
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance presents the annual International Summer Dance Institute. Specialty dance classes include Collective Rhythms of the Drum, West African Dance and Egyptian Dance. We encourage participants to learn songs and rhythms as they relate to traditional dance and dances throughout the African Diaspora.
Conduit
Tel: 303-494-5239 Email: contact@conduitmusic.net
Conduit connects artists with audience. As representative for a growing roster of the world’s finest musicians, we at Conduit endeavor to link our artists with thirsty-eared music aficionados eager to experience bold new sounds emanating from around the globe.
Boubacar Diabete & Dialy Kounda
Tel: 720-329-4298
Senegal, Sabar Drum and Kora (21 string harp-lute) player, Boubacar has a CD of his Afro-pop band Dialy Kounda that features a blend of music styles woven into and supported by the Kora tradition. He is available to give cultural lectures and music demonstrations in schools and public events. Boubacar has recently released his second album "My Family" recorded in Senegal, West Africa with members of his family. It is traditional Jali Mandinkan music featuring Kora, Balafon, Ngoni and other Senegalese instruments and special guest Bela Fleck who is a renowned Banjo player.
Malang Diatta
Tel: 720-327-3116
Senegal, Sabar Drum, and Guinea Dance. Malang has performed professionally in Senegal and now brings his immense knowledge of dance and choreography to Colorado. His classes and performances are full of energy and creativity. He is available to teach drumming, dance and to do performances. He teaches regular classes at Bantaba World Dance & Music.
Abdoul Doumbia
Colorado College
Address: 14 E. Cache la Poudre Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Tel: 303-443-6913
Email: Abdoul@humansongs.com or adboul@djembe.boulder
http://www.humansongs.com/artists.htm or http://www.humansongs.com/abdoul.htm
Malian Master Drummer Abdoul Doumbia was called to the drum at the age of 5 and completed a 16-year apprenticeship under Master Drummer Moriba Keita. Instruction included all phases of technique, composition, harmonizing, teaching skills, drum making, repair, tuning, and knowledge of both traditional drum and dance. He now teaches and performs regularly across the United States and also organizes Cultural Tours to Mali on a regular basis.
Enkambum
Address: 1502 Upland Ave, Boulder, CO 80304
Tel: 303-449-2671 Email: enkambum@yahoo.com
Enkambum is a non-profit organization that came into formation in the fall of 2003. We are devoted to sharing and developing visions of community through artistic experiences of unity and togetherness.
Mary Ellen Cuthbertson Garrett
Address: PO Box 3254, Estes Park CO 80517
Tel: 303-415-2770 Email: mellenmail@yahoo.com
Shona music on mbira nyunga nyunga and dzavadzimu.
Gills Drum Community
Contact: Keith Gill
Address: 6712 E 123rd Place, Thornton, CO 80601
Tel: (303) 450-1245
Since 1993, Gills Drum Community has been feeding the homeless in Civic Center Park in Denver from May through September. Last year they feed over 8000 people.
Helander Dance Theater
Contact: Danelle Helander, Artistic Director
Address: The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80302
Tel: 303-473-9438 Email: danelle@peakpeak.com
Over the past seven years, HDT has emphasized cultural exchange and community assistance in the creation of new dance projects, such as the Mali Project 2001.
Human Songs
c/o Rick Welty: HumanSongs Records
Address: 4279-C Monroe Drive, Boulder, CO 80303
Tel: 877-303-3122 Fax: 877-303-3122 Email: rick@humansongs.com
Human Songs features artists with folkloric and world beat music. We also offer and sponsor Mali Tours, Zimbabwe Tours, African Music Camps, Djembes and Mudcloths and The Mali Assistance Project.
Jaka
Address: c/o Mountain High Music, P.O. Box 2351, Boulder, CO 80306-2351
Tel: 303-415-1958 Fax: 303-413-9150 Email: kelly@mtnhighmusic.com
Jaka is a World Beat dance band successfully blazing their own musical path. Three friends who originally began studying under master Zimbabwean musician and ethnomusicologist, Dumi Maraire, founded Jaka. The band's polyrhythmic, tasty world beat sound is a rich brew of the ancient mbira traditions of Zimbabwe and Congolese soukous, spiced with Caribbean rhythms and instruments.
Malang Jobarteh
Tel: 720-890-8106
Malang Jobarteh, Kora player from Senegal