Sadiki Educational Safaris

05/28/2026

Well, we are fundraising again, this time on line, to provide scholarships for our kids from wards 6,7 and 8 in Washington, DC to travel to Palenque de San Basilio, a UNESCO Heritage Site founded by formerly enslaved Africans in the early 1600's. From there we will see Cartegena and Medellin through an AfroColombian lens. Just minutes ago we received a full sponsorship pledge from a former donor, and we are excited and extremely grateful! We now need to raise a few thousand more dollars to cover the other students' airfare, hotels, food, ground transpo, and tours. If you love DC and love Africa, if you love kids and love Colombia and want to help strengthen the African Diaspora, please make your tax deductible donation here:
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/TALPL9XSGKEF8
Love and Power,
Mama Lydia
email [email protected]

If you want to contribute to our Scholarship Fund, to sponsor teens to go on an educational journey to Colombia in July of 2026, you may donate here.

11/29/2025

You don’t want to miss this! Tickets at Givebutter.com/aCXsCt

11/24/2025

Dear Community, please come and support our effort to expose teenagers to maroon culture as well as teach them how to organize for changing their own communities! Sunday, December 7 at 5 PM

09/21/2025

We love you Mama C - welcome to DC 🤲🏾♥️🖤💚

01/22/2025

Episcopal Bishop, Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, publicly called out Trump to his face today at a service at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. This was some next level Jesus-style calling out the powerful that you rarely see exampled anymore.

“Let me make one final plea, Mr. President. Millions have put their trust in you, and as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, le***an, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives. The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, gurdwara, and temples.

I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear their parents will be taken away, and that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we were all once strangers in this land. May God grant us the strength and courage to honor the dignity of every human being, to speak the truth to one another in love, and walk humbly with each other and our God, for the good of all people, the good of all people in this nation and the world. Amen.”

10/20/2024

Please come out on Monday and drop a donation for hurricane relief. Thanks!

Authors local to the DC area, Ethelbert Miller, Shannon Sanders, Chantal James, and Kelsey Norris will read from the published work for the community at Sankofa Books at 6:30pm on October 21 as a benefit to raise funds for mutual aid that brings critical disaster relief. Moderated by Lydia Curtis