Ujamaa
Out of the fundamental concepts of “African Communal Living” comes the fourth principle of Kwanzaa
Ujamaa principle empowers families and communities to come together around their collective economic interest and to see their economic strength in co-opt owing and buying as in employee owned credit unions.
Cooperative Economics : To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and profit from them together.
In a community or family, wealth and resources should be shared. On the national level, cooperative economics can help communities to take physical control of their own destinies. On this day, ideas should be shared and discussed for cooperative economic efforts to provide for needs as related to housing, education, food, day care, health, transportation and other goods and services.
The principle empowers families to come together around their collective economic interest and to see their economic strength in sharing resources and cooperative investing, buying, and selling. Moreover, the moral ties necessary to achieve and practice the Ujamaa principle obligate those who live in the community to support, care for and look out for each other and to see the interest of the each person as tied to the interest of the family and community. In a word, wealth and resources should be shared.
Activities Explain and discuss the possibility cooperative economic can have in your family or community and how this cooperative economic can strengthen your community.
Proverb " A bird builds with the feathers of others "
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