Our values are mainly inspired by two of the following:The social and economic challenges facing our country and continent at the present moment and the impact Covid-19 had in worsening our conditions.
And the
Seven principles of Kwanzaa created in 1966 by
Maulana Karenga, (a Black nationalist and professor of Pan-African studies at California State University at Long Beach):
- Unity - this is to strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
- Self-determination -to define, name, create and speaking for oneself.
- Collective work and Responsibility -"To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together," wrote Mr Karenga.
- Cooperative Economics - "To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together..."
- Purpose - "To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness."
- Creativity - "To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it."
- Faith - "To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle."