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Jun
We Are Africa 2010 Road Tour – We Want Your Input!
This August, African Ancestry is hitting the road to share the African Ancestry experience with the community from New Orleans to New England!
For the past 7 years, we’ve helped over 20,000 people of African descent reconnect with their African roots. But our work has just begun.
With over 37 million African Americans in the US alone, we are packing up the car this summer and driving to a town near you to teach, discuss and reunite with the community and our African Ancestry family members.
But before we finalize our dates and locations, we need your help to really make this tour special.
Tell us what venues to go to.
Recommend venues that would be interested in hosting an African Ancestry event. Think town hall style meetings where we can talk to people about Africa, ancestry, DNA, genealogy and African Ancestry. We’ll hold a mix of large presentations and intimate conversations, and are interested in all venues from bookstores to boutiques to libraries to community centers to college campuses.
Connect us with the right people.
We need your help to identify the leaders and connectors in these cities who can mobilize the troops and spread the word that African Ancestry is coming to town.
Volunteer at an event.
We can’t do it alone. Let us know if you would be interested in lending us a hand at our events—from greeting guests to setting up to serving refreshments.
Give us safe passage.
If there’s a minority-owned hotel or bed and breakfast in these cities, make sure that we know about it. If there’s an African Ancestry Family member willing to provide a modern day “safe house” and host us during our journey, we graciously accept your hospitality.
If you have any suggestions or are interested in helping, please email us at tour@africanancestry.com with your information.
We’ll be sending out more information on the “We Are Africa” 2010 Road Tour soon. Stay tuned.
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We can’t wait to meet all of you and share the African Ancestry experience in your communities!
And don’t worry if your city isn’t on this tour, we hope to make it across the country over the next several months!
Are you guys coming to Vancouver, Canada by any chance. I would love to be a part of this. And if you are not coming are you established in Canada If not I would love to be of help to make that happen. I so believe in what you do and know many people here who want to truly know there past. That we feel was stolen from us. *Many blessings*
Vancouver is not on this leg of the tour. But we hope that you will follow us online! We’ll let you know when we make it to Canada. Thanks!
I am so glad to hear about this tour, if you should happen to come to Atlanta, I would really enjoy doing volunteer work. This is a great opportunity for African American to learn about our pass through DNA and genealogy.
Attn:Gina Paige Count me in(volved)… I’m eager to participate w/ indigenous & people of color. Our family originated the “Family Tour” of the undergroung railroad & families escaping from Deep South-Ohio to Detroit into Puese Canada… The Wall Family (Survivors Still residing in Puese Canada)-Book “The Road That Led To Somewhere” were primarily responsible for our research & family trip! George Burgess& Family
Hey Gina,
Nice seeing you in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn this pasy weekend. We met in Charlottesville, Va. in 2007 where I heard your wonderful presentation and took the test. It change my life. I’m sure that the tour will be a major success. Good luck!