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Flyer for the North Plainfield Farmer’s Market where the Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble will perform traditional folkloric music, song and dance from the Caribbean, as well as discuss the intersections of culture, food and sustainability.

Flyer for the Percussion Rhythms of the Caribbean Concert hosted by Who Is My Neighbor. This concert featured the Black Circle Symphony and the Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble.

I brought Emmanuel my husband to see my vision for this place.

Mai Bare serving food in her kitchen, millet and vegetables.

As the dream came to being.

We started documenting in 2008 and kept it going even though we did not know what we were doing.

The community leaders, the headman, Sabhukus of Bare and Bare community sharing in this vision for their community that I had.

The roofing of the toilet.

The Bare Community.

BaMike and MaiMike, our builder at his homestead.

Moving rocks to the site.

The strong men at work.

BaMike's potato garden and his wife on the side. These are very sandy soils that are so depleted.

Mrs Shumba's granddaughters, our future generations in her kitchen.

Nothing goes to waste in a village. These are plastic bags made into a ball to play with. Poverty has to end in Africa because there is plenty when the mind is blind the eyes can not see.

The dream of becoming self sufficient.

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

Delivering Cement to build the toilet for the project to carry on.

Mr. Bare being helped to move the bag of cement from my car.

Mai Bare and the boys at her plot of land.

True dedication is crushing these stones to be used for building.

The Women who had hope to improve themselves with this project.

The Masikandoro meeting.

After eating they are having a chat about the past, present and future.

Mr.Shumba serenading us with the mbira music.