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WHO IS AARC?
AARC is an extension and collaborative of the IEM (International Expatriate Movement), ADACI (African Diaspora Ancestral Commemoration Institute) and TAHI (The Ancestral Healing Institute).
Collectively, AARC is created to establish programs
to support and inspire a foundation of spiritual healing to address the ills of those who suffer
from the impact of the Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome in addition to providing empowering workshops, seminars and forums that motivate a spiritual
African Redemption program to inform those in need of the
positive and progressive relationships which now exist between and among Africans on the African
Continent and those Africans born throughout the Diaspora.
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ADACI The African Diaspora Ancestral Commemoration Institute (ADACI) is
dedicated to institutionalizing the commemoration of the millions of
Africans lost during the Atlantic and other periods of enslavement. A
winner of the 2004 Community Service Award of the Millennium Club of
the National Association of Negro Business & Professional Women’s
Clubs, Inc. (NANBPWC, Inc.), ADACI has provided outstanding educational
and community-based programming in Metropolitan Washington, D.C. and
the surrounding areas for nearly 20 years.
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TAHI believes that family history helps current generations discover information about their biological and social lineages. Family history is simply Genealogy---the study of family history, and for some it is a great past time and then there are those who are not interested in their family history for one reason or another. And whether this is the case or not, it does not diminish the genetic flow of "Family," in other words family cannot be "cut off" only in a conscious sense, not in a spiritual or physical sense. To cut off family is as if the thumb is removed from the hand, and the hand may perform without the thumb, which is replaced with an artificial joint; the hand is then perceived to be whole. This analogy points to deception in perception, as family members are perceived based on what is known of their external experiences and other family members. These perceptions generate thoughts and thoughts are actions waiting to be birthed, thoughts are limited when cultural identity is an issue or for reasons beyond control, biological families are not known, and there is a reason for that which will be discussed at one of our upcoming forums.
Some family discoveries are positive and some are not. However, today the term "ancestor" is being used liberally among a number of venues and educational institutions. Therefore, TAHI believes that Recovery is to learn from our past and Cultural Recovery is to respect the differences of others when we do not understand!
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