Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): Creating Family Memory Boxes

Artist Tamara Thomas will conduct an arts and crafts workshop on the fourth day of Kwanzaa where families can create their own family memory box. Together they will decorate their memory box and decide what family memories to preserve, and which items to go in the box. Participants are encouraged to bring family and friend photos or trinkets. Ms. Thomas will also engage participants in an Ujamaa (cooperative economics) vision board project to discuss what is needed in their communities and create a business model to fit that need. Participants would also list the benefits of having a family or community business. We are more powerful working together than in silos.

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