“obuntu bulamu” – a phrase used among Bantu ethnic groups meaning “shared humanity”

Ubuntu collaborates with professional associates who serve individuals, families, community organizations and public institutions to offer:

• Human Rights Education, Research and Development work for community organizations (and public institutions)
• Human Rights and Human, Social, and Economic Development
• The Childcare Cooperative project
• Mentoring Services
• Workshops in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Counselling, Referral, and Advocacy services
• Educational Information Sessions
• Leadership Training Sessions

Ubuntu program and services are grounded in human rights values—equality of human dignity and worth, equal opportunities for everyone, respect of diversity, self-determination, and do no harm. UCAS & ADPA associate professionals employ universal human rights values, Cooperative values, critical social theory, and other evidence-based practice theories in their work with stakeholders and clients.

Ubuntu program incorporates the lived experience knowledge and understanding of the complex, dynamic, and destructive nature of race ideology and the resulting racism, and systemic racism at multiple levels (i.e., internalized/personal, interpersonal, institutional, cultural, and structural) and forms. It is cognizant of the negative impact of racism on people’s mental and physical health, and on human development, and in social and economic relationships. It promotes healing and works towards the elimination of systemic racism- as part of research and evidence-based practice, plus on-going evaluation of outcomes.

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