Ubuntu Youth & Young Adult Group
Lexington, KY
Ubuntu Youth and Young Adult Group is a community support and empowerment group for youths and young adults between 10 to 25 years old, located in Lexington, KY.
Welcome!
Mission
To provide an Ubuntu-safe space that promotes empowerment, support, character development, holistic wellbeing, and the pursuit of inherited dreams and purpose.
Vision
A community where youths and young adults are supported and empowered to thrive as they pursue their inherited dreams and purpose for community development.
Programs and Activities
To explore life and our own stories, our struggles, and the successes stories of others in the community.
To provide community support for youths and young adults.
To promote empowerment through Ubuntu community ideas and skills for character development, resilience, and holistic wellbeing in the face of adversity as they pursue their inherited dreams and purposes.
Symbols From The Akan’s In Ghana
“Funtunfunefu Denkyemfunefu”
the Siamese crocodile
“Sankofa” (Reflection)
Go back and take it
Ubuntu Values
Friendship, Respect for Individuality, Unity in diversity, solidarity, compassion, generosity, love, respect, dignity, acceptance, social justice, equality, equity.
Ubuntu Safe Space Principles
Safe Space
This safe space will learn to provide:
- A supportive and non-judgmental environment.
- Unconditional love and acceptance
- A sense of belonging and identity.
- The freedom to own oneself as individual and communal.
- The courage to be vulnerable.
- The ability to develop resilience and thrive.
- Empowerment for social, psychological, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing as they pursue their dreams and purpose.
The Sacredness of Our Shared Space
The spirit of Ubuntu recognizes the intersubjective space among people and honors it as sacred.
This group will, therefore, learn to:
- Recognize the shared communal space and hold it with respect and dignity.
- Recognizing the humanity in others.
- Acknowledge that we all belong to a greater whole.
- Develop the awareness of self and others and create that respective space.
- Recognize that our individual actions ripple and affect ourselves and others.
- Recognize and appreciate the blessings that each one brings into the shared space (ideas/inputs, presence, support, talents, intelligence, understanding, wisdom, and skills).
- The right to life, freedom, and pursuit of meaning and purpose.