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Consultation Services
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Afri-Can Village
Our Story/Our Vision
‘Ekhaya’ means home, and for us home can be created anywhere it isn’t tied to a building or location. The production of fresh, organic produce locally in Waterloo region allows us to feel at home while in diaspora. Our love of story telling and the Southern Africa tradition and heritage connects the African diaspora to the past that they were disconnected from through slavery and colonization.
We also conduct Seminars/workshops exploring our humanity together and our aim is to awaken the internal monitors of wayward behavior and interactions allowing one the ability to introspect and self-regulate, which leads to better interactions between people.
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Discussions in the Garden Connecting Garden & Mental Health
Growing plants is a rewarding experience. The joy that comes from harvesting the crop, smelling a beautiful bloom, sitting in the shade of a long cared for tree, taking a bite from a corn cob.
A lesser known and less spoken about part is the effect growing plants has on us. The growing of plants has a lot of lessons, when one looks very closely at it. It is not hard work as always postulated. There are difficult parts to growing things but not unlike everything else humans dabble in. Beautiful flowers make everyone happy, and their sweet scents soothe in many ways. It is now part of medical research, the effect plants have on the healing process of humans, both physically and mentally.
“We live in community, sharing and caring for each other in our multitude of ways, still together.”
Rastafarianism, popularized by reggae musicians like Bob Marley and others, is a way of life that shuns things like the individual descriptors that isolate. Echoing the culture of ‘Ubuntu’, seeing self through and with others.
The minute focus goes to the individual at the expense of the collective, we have strayed from the tenets of ‘ubuntu’, which values each individual equally.
So the correlation between systems existing today and those historical to now is the budding off from the ancient ways only to repackage in modern language and sensibilities but no new knowledge.
Connecting Land culture and mental wellbeing to create communities of mutual respect
OUR GALLERY
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