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COLLECTIVE

WORK &

RESPONSIBILITY

Ujima (“oo-JEE-mah”): “To build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together.”

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Project Ujima is a grassroots community engagement organization that teaches and facilitates Discussion Circle processes, Peace Circles, that enable diverse citizens to come together, discuss issues of shared concern, build relationships of trust, discover common ground, and go from talk to action.

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About Project
Ujima

Project Ujima focuses on fostering the conditions that lead to citizens discovering their own efficacy and capacity to work together to strengthen the community.

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Infant Vitality Programs

In Summit County, the Black infant mortality rate in 2024 was 19.4 per 1,000 live births - more than double the overall county rate. This is not about economic status or education. It's about systems. And we are building something different. 

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HOW YOU CAN HELP

Explore all the ways you can partner with Project Ujima in support of its mission.

Upcoming Events

Queens Village Diaper Pull-up - March 26

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Get in Touch

1015 South Hawkins Avenue

Akron, OH 44320

(Inside the Gus Johnson Community Center)

(330) 529-5672

info@projectujima-inc.org

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