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universal literacy for haiti
universal literacy for haiti
Helping Young People Create New Worlds
and Partners' Power of Good
Feeding Education.
Aja Yard
Aja Yard in New Orleans is a project led by physician Gabou
Mendy and educator and dancer Greer Mendy.
The base for Aja Yard is a two-story, _____ square-foot building at 5640 Burgundy, corner of Lamanche, deep in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward, south toward the Mississippi River from St. Claude Avenue. The building was once home to a Hardware Store. Behind its fences and under its yard's branches stretch areas of lawn amounting to _____ square feet--the grounds and space for Performances that will bridge between Louisiana and Africa and all Continents.
Aja Yard fulfills multiple purposes and visions.
Its immediate Parts are:
Tekrema Center for Art and Culture
Manjo Media
Healing Healthcare.
Aja Yard combines the most Local of needs and expressions with an International reach.
The Tekrema Center for Art and Culture arose in 2007 at 5640 Burgundy to offer space for Classes and Performances that involved New Orleans' returning communities. (The Lower 9th Ward had waited till Summer 2006 for electricity to be restored.) Greer Mendy--an Attorney as well as an Actor, Dancer and Educator--spearheaded Tekrema. CLICK
to visit Tekrema's dynamic website.
Over 18 years Tekrema has provided Classes and Performances.
Sponsored in part by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation and the New Orleans Tourism and Culture Fund.
Dr. Gabou Ndapich Mendy graduated from the University of Virginia's School of Medicine as a Medical Doctor in 1982. He was born in the Gambia, west Africa, in 1954 and was recruited to the University of Maryland on an athletic and academic scholarship in 1972. He ran 1:4___ for 800 Meters as a Terrapin. He played Soccer for King University of Bristol,
Tennessee (1978) and was elected into that University's
Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.
Over the past 43 years Dr. Mendy has served in Family Practice as a traveling M. D. in Louisiana and (affiilated with the University of Maryland) Haiti.
Over those past four decades, too, Dr. Mendy has offered
and promoted music and other culture of Africa and the Caribbean to audiences in North America. He was volunteer show-host of " " on New Orleans Radio-Station WWOZ from ___ to ____, He served on the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation' Board of Directors in
two terms, _______ and __________.
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