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Umoja Outreach Foundation: creating intergenerational impacts!
CategoriesIntergenerational, Umoji News
April 24, 2023
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Umoja Outreach Foundation has something for everyone! Our organization’s programs stretch between communities and across generations, creating intergenerational bonds. That allows us to form connections between and have impacts on every generation across the world. How can I get involved with Umoja Outreach? Kids Participate in our annual soccer tournament, uGames! Attend uAcademy weekly soccer training and participate in Techne Futbol Virtual Training Participate in Adopt-a-Grandparent to gain valuable advice from an elder Youth  Participate in our annual soccer tournament, uGames! Listen to our weekly career talkshows and benefit from our online mentorship platform Participate in Adopt-a-Grandparent to gain valuable advice from an elder Receive scholarship opportunities with uBrains, which is coming soon! Parents  Participate in and connect with old friends at our annual soccer tournament, uGames! Benefit from our subsidized uAcademy weekly soccer training for kids Join the global professional directory to mentor young professionals Participate in the Charity-at-Home program to help families affected by COVID-19 Help your child receive scholarship opportunities with uBrains, which is coming soon! Grandparents Connect with old friends at our annual soccer tournament, uGames! Join the global professional directory to mentor young professionals Participate in the Adopt-a-Grandparent program to form bonds with our community’s next generation Participate in the Charity-at-Home program to help families affected by COVID-19  

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Umoja Outreach Foundation launches Charity at Home program!
CategoriesUmoji News
April 24, 2023
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Umoja Outreach Foundation’s Financial Aid program has launched its latest initiative, the Charity at Home program! It aims to support local families affected by COVID-19. We’re all in this together, and you can help!  Support families affected by COVID-19 by shopping at your favorite stories, who will donate toward our Financial Aid program. To sign up: Visit www.flipgive.com or download the FLIPGIVE app Use the code NGW4BH for Canada or P66LPN to join the Umoja Flipgive team Buy gift cards at your favorite store and start helping

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Spotlight: uMentor is shaping the way that networking happens within our communities
CategoriesUmoji News
April 24, 2023
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uMentor, our career development branch, is looking to change the way that networking happens within our communities. Every week, the team hosts a career development podcast, bringing on a professional to answer questions about their experience and help mentor students in their career journeys. Now, uMentor has launched a new effort to create a global Shi’a professional directory! Joining the directory will be an opt-in option for all users creating a new Umoja account. It’ll connect professionals to young people within our communities. Want to be a part of the professional directory? Opt in to it when you create your Umoja account, or sign in to your existing account and opt in in your account settings! To access uMentor’s career development podcasts, click here.

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The Academy: Paving the Way for our Next Generation!
CategoriesUmoji News
April 24, 2023
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We like to call The Academy the heartbeat of the organization. Its role in paving the way for the future of Umoja is instrumental. The Academy is where we train the next generation of Umojis by developing soccer skills using our hand-picked coaches to teach our wide array of age categories. By partnering with the best of coaches, facilities and program offering, we can deliver much more than skills to kill a soccer ball. At the Academy, we are building a bigger family by enabling old relationships rekindle, new ones get formed and lay the foundations for the future generations – all on the backdrop of a soccer field. The Academy is currently available in New York, Orlando, Toronto, New Jersey, Allentown, and Chicago. #CROWNJEWEL  

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Check out Umoja Care’s Adopt-a-Grandparent Program!
CategoriesCare, Umoji News
April 24, 2023
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Umoja means “unity,” and Umoja Care’s new Adopt-a-Grandparent program provides an opportunity for youth and seniors to partner up in the spirit of friendship, mutual support, and unity! The program pairs youth (ages 7-21) with a senior in our community, and gives them the opportunity to connect and form intergenerational bonds. What are the requirements to apply? Simple – None. As long as you as a youth want to connect with an elderly, ask how they are, learn something about them – we’d love to have you participate! For seniors who want to connect with youth, we think this program is the perfect opportunity, especially amid the isolation caused by the current situation. All participants in this program are required to apply. Each youth will be paired with a grandparent (senior) from a community after an interview process. UmojaCare will provide monthly themes and discussion starters to the youth to help in their discussion with the grandparent. The youth volunteer will summarize their discussion and have the option to create a short biography for their adopted grandparent – their lifelong friend. The program will span over a 12-month period, but we hope that the relationships will last forever. On our weekly uMentor talk show, we recently featured two program participants, Br. Maisum Walli and adopted “grandparent” Sr. Sakina Naqvi! They talked about their experience with the program, and it’s a great resource for those looking to learn more. Click here to listen to the podcast!

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