My Brother's Keeper

AVillage New Initiative is a long time coming but it's never too late to help our young brothers in their effort to become men of honor in their communities. This new initiative will need all of us to lend a helping hand. 

If you would like to get involved with AVillage and this great effort, please contact me and I will gladly give you more details as to how we can all make a difference in these young men lives. My number is 518-859-4305, email is avillage5@aol.com, thank you.

More information about My Brother's Keeper: http://mbkchallenge.org

My Brothers Keepers is about to start!

AVillage is proud to announce that it will undertake it's own model of the "My Brothers Keeper" Program, AVillage is a work-site for the summer youth employment program "A-Light" our work-site has 9 students, five young men and four young ladies. AVillage has decided to take the five young men and start the "My Brothers Keepers Program" I'm sure this program will grow.

After working the last 3 weeks with these young men my heart goes out to them. I can't let them fail. I feel obligated to help them succeed. I'm proud of them, for three week we've been work on a history project and these young people has did an awesome job, they are blessed to have the opportunity to work with a historian from Siena College, Mr. Francis Butler, studying African American History. 

Because of the odds facing our young men of color, AVillage will work hard to lead our young men down a different path, it's going to take all of us to make this program a success, nothing else is acceptable, failure is not an option. 

Learn about My Brothers Keeper:

http://m.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/02/27/my-brother-s-keeper-new-white-house-initiative-empower-boys-and-young-men-color

Startling Facts - People of Color

1. While people of color make up about 30% of the U.S.A Population, they account for 60% of the prison population.
2. According to the Bureau of justice statistics, 1 in 3 black men can expect to go to prison in their life time.
3. Students of color faces harsher punishments in school than their white peers.
4. The war on drugs has been waged primarily in communities of color where people of color are more likely to receive higher offences according to the human rights commission. and it goes on and on...

"WAKE UP PEOPLE" It time for us to take a stand and demand JUSTICE!!!, No Kid Should have to go to JAIL, Regardless of COLOR!

Education is the answer, Parental Involvement is the PATH, and Community Involvement is the Way! It all Takes AVillage.

Come to Learn How the Criminal Justice System Impacts People of Color

Please Join Us on April 25th at Schenectady County Community College, the Program will start at 6pm until 8pm, "The New Jim Crow Chang Gang and Too Deep Entertainment", Featuring Dr. Alice Green and The NJC Report.

How the criminal justice system impacts people of color in our communities? Conviction and arrest report.

from  Benita Law-Diao