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Residents, visitors, neighbors and students work together on Plenitud’s permaculture farm site. This hillside has been transformed from a slope covered in coffee bushes to a terraced food and herb production site using water and land management…

Raíces Director Francisco G. Gómez and volunteer Christina Proxenos working the earth at Finca Mi Casa under the direction of Don Luis Soto. During our visit, we planted a small patch of three varieties of beans for seed saving from some of the…

Many hands make light work. With about a dozen service learning volunteers, the entire greenhouse can be weeded and watered in about 15 minutes.

The work contunies even after the fact

Work starts at Masikandoro digging out rocks to use for building.

An old wooden house in Arroyo, Puerto Rico.

Masikandoro women at work and development

Most of these women became my friends and inspired me to start women groups leading to the creation of Domboshava Community Project.

The women were working on the kitchen area and the men the toilet.

Women and grass plus ants

In 2018, Raíces Cultural Center participated in the multi-city installation Windows of Understanding, displaying a variety of artwork including pieces from the 2017 Water is Life Exhibit Series and a poster from the locally produced documentary…

Window display with prints, collage, ink drawings and hand-painted boxes on display as part of the Water Is Life exhibit series group art show.

Sign reaching "Wind - We Resist" being attached to bamboo by a volunteer in preparation for the People's Climate March.

Midiah asking Mai Bare if she really is willing to let this fall apart because of power, greed and money?

White violet in the Raíces EcoCulture herbal healing gardens in April 2017. Violets are perennial plants that also promote the life cycle of the black swallowtail butterfly, a native pollinator in New Jersey.

When women have direction they are happy

In 2009 the trees in Domboshava had disappeared fast

Whelk made by artist Lisa Bagwell. This sculpture is constructed from plastic cigar tips.

What an achievement this is

This whale made by artist Lisa Bagwell was created entirely out plastic bottles and other plastic refuse collected during a clean-up of Sandy Hook beaches stuffed into a chicken wire frame. The whale has traveled to several locations throughout NJ,…

Dance teacher Liana Conyers leading workshop participants at the Raíces Cultural Center Cultural Legacy Festival 2013 Workshop Series.

Workshop leader Liana Conyers led participants through a variety of West African dances including Lamba and griot dances.

Workshop leader Liana Conyers teaching and leading West African dances.
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