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SELECTED PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS…
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S.E.E.D.S. Family University Scholarships (2013...)

Supports students in Ghana and Zimbabwe who would otherwise be unable to attend college in pursuing higher education, expanding opportunities, and building pathways to meaningful careers. S.E.E.D.S. provides a 4-year scholarship, which includes tuition, books, a new laptop computer, room, and board. To date, four students have graduated and three are currently enrolled.

Modern Laboratory Tools for a School in Ghana

S.E.E.D.S. provided Bunsen burners, funnels, droppers, retort stands, tripod stands, wash bottles, test tube holders, and graduated cylinders, to the Saint Gina School Complex in Ashaiman, as part of our commitment to improving science and technology education in Ghana. The donation also included novels to promote reading among students.

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Critically-needed Supplies CHF in Ghana

In September 2025, S.E.E.D.S. began annual funding to the Children Helpers Foundation to provide essential educational supplies to children in Cape Coast, Ghana.

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Start-A-Library Program

Since its inception, S.E.E.D.S. has contributed more than 175,000 books to approximately 200 ‘starter libraries’, libraries, and library resource centers (LRCs) in schools, universities, villages, towns, and community-based institutions located in most of Ghana’s 16 regions. This includes a 700+ volume Africana Collection donated to the W.E.B. DuBois Memorial Centre in Accra.

Gallery LRC Report (2003) Accra Report (2003) Mini-Library Manual
SSTATE Rural Agricultural Project

S.E.E.D.S. has provided moderate financial assistance in solidarity with the intergenerational group of comrades engaged in this pathbreaking socialist model agricultural cooperative project in Ghana’s Eastern Region.The Liberty Ayivi Memorial Mango Plantation (LAMMP) is pictured.

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S.E.E.D.S Institute for Self Determination & Sustainability (SISDS)

"We struggle to learn, so we can learn to sustain our struggle."

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Selected Key Partnerships

Education for Liberation
Education for Liberation

CPE/CEP is an organization that has focused on parents and community playing the leading role in a people-empowered public education system—from governance & funding policies to curricula, instruction; and from teacher/administrator preparation, training, and professional development to afterschool programming.

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NYC CFEMC works toward empowering all communities and their students across New York City with liberatory education policies. Specifically, the org seeks to END MAYORAL CONTROL of the NYC Public School System; and replace it with a human rights-based school system.

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International Education and Technology Transfer
Technology Transfer

SALES-FAMILY ELMINA, GHANA JHS COMPUTER LAB collaboration successfully acquired, programmed, and shipped 31 desktop computers to Elmina Methodist Public Junior High School; where they were installed in the fully renovated, wired, and community-funded computer laboratory. S.E.E.D.S. was invited to be a partner and contributed some funding and logistics support in NYC and Ghana

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UPAMA is a NYC Black Community media archive committed to digitizing a trove of important historical 20th Century and early 21st Century local audio and audio-visual cultural, political, and educational tapes in danger of being lost to posterity.

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Youth Mentoring
youth-mentoring

RFC is a people empowerment organization focused on education, youth mentoring, equitable technology transfer, and intergenerational participatory action research (iPAR).

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