3rd Annual Mississippi Day Celebration

Thank you Albany for your support of our 3rd annual Mississippi Day Celebration. Your dedication and support made it all possible in-spite of the Rain. We had a great time. 

 

I went to church this morning and ask God to give us a great day for next year, thanks to all the elected officials who came out to celebrate with us, Albany Mayor Kathy Moran Sheehan, congressman Paul Tonko, common council president Carolyn Mclaughlin, councilwoman Vivian Kornegay, family court judge Peggy Walsh, assemblyman Assemblymember John McDonald, sheriff Craig Apple, and many more. Can't for get the clergy, but most of all thank God for the blessings he bestowed upon us all!

AVillage Farmers Market with Albany Med.

Thank you, Albany Medical Center volunteers for helping our South End Famers Market.

HAPPY 5TH ANNIVERSARY TO AVILLAGE

Since it was found on August 6, 2009, AVillage members have been working hard to create new programs and hopes in the South End and beyond. We’ve worked on many different projects in our communities. We fought very hard to bring public transportation to our community and will continue to fight on many different fronts to make sure that resources are in our communities.

Some of our accomplishments are: our 3rd. annual “Mississippi Day Celebration,” A vacant lot project called “Our Children’s Garden”, AVillage South End Farmer’s Market, our 4th annual (SEED) South End Earth Day, just to name a few. One new tradition we started in 2014 is an annual Celebration of Progress fundraiser, to thank all of our friends and supporters and a way to build our ability to do more.

Happy 5th Anniversary to AVillage!!

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

Summer Youth with Jennifer Lemax

Our summer youth students posing with Jennifer Lemax, she wrote the book on Rapp Road, which is the history project the students are working on.

South End Farmers Market

AVillage Farmers Market Today at Lincoln Park Basketball Court, we also have ZUMBA and NUTRITIONAL CLASSES...LOTS OF FUN AT THE MARKET...COME OUT AND GET YOUR FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES AND GET YOUR DANCE ON 1:00pm-5:00pm. 

If you attend the nutritional classes you will receive a 5.00 coupon to spend at the market, don't forget to bring your kids! We accept food stamp and farmers market vouchers. 

AVillage, serving our communities.

Meeting at "Our Children's Garden"!

Nice weather today!! We had our weekly meeting at "Our Children's Garden"! Welcome all community members to talk with us and share your stories.