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ACCEC & The University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Work, invite you to join us in celebrating Black History Month on February 24th, 2023.

ACCEC & University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work Presents

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ACCEC & The University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Work, invite you to join us in celebrating Black History Month on February 24th, 2023.

We invite everyone to listen to African Indigenous storytelling of African ways of knowing through digital storytelling, our youth showcasing their business, live performances, and dinner. Please book your free tickets in advance.

ACCEC’s mandate is to protect and promote the human rights and dignity of all people of African descent.

ACCEC & The University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Work, invite you to join us in celebrating Black History Month on February 24th, 2023.
ACCEC & The University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Work, invite you to join us in celebrating Black History Month on February 24th, 2023.

ACCEC was one of the Black-led organizations across Canada that were approved for funding and created a program called the ANZA Entrepreneurship Ecosystem, which is a hybrid program of an academic introduction to business which also incorporates an African Indigenous way of understanding business from the basis of human-centric utilizing an Igbo apprentice system also known as the Igbo trade apprentice system and commonly referred to as ′Igba-Odibo/Igba-Boi/Imu-Ahia/Imu-Oru′.

We partnered with The University of Calgary, the Faculty of Social Work, Anti-Black Racism Taskforce. In 2020, the unjust murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless other Black lives by police fueled a global movement against police brutality and anti-Black racism.

In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, the Faculty of Social Work (FSW) at the University of Calgary released a statement in 2020 affirming its commitment to addressing anti-Black racism. The Faculty of Social Work formed the Anti-Black Racism Task Force to uphold this commitment, with a mandate of promoting Black excellence and contributions while addressing anti-Black racism in its structures, processes, and practices.

ANZA is a Swahili term for a new beginning. The ANZA Black Entrepreneur Ecosystem program is designed to help youth (18-30) to generate & develop business ideas, convert these ideas into a business plan, provide mentorship and help Black youth seek out and apply for loans that they can kick off their businesses with.

the ANZA Program provides various wrap-around interventions that, through the utilization of the stabilization program, support connection to housing, financial literature and stabilization, rehabilitation, & community reintegration

In the span of one year and a half since the ANZA program was launched by ACCEC, more than 50 youths have successfully benefited from it and offered them to put their business dreams into reality.

This program was made possible by the Federal Government of Canada’s Black Entrepreneurship Program (BEP). With an investment of up to $221 million over four years. It would help Black Canadian business owners and entrepreneurs grow and succeed.

 

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