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WHADN Membership
WHADN MISSION
WHADN mission is to encourage and facilitate the utilization of the collective talents and resources of the African
Diaspora in the Americas and Caribbean to advance the collective interests of Africans on the continent and throughout
the Diaspora. This will be accomplished through joint projects by the WHADN and the African Union.
WHADN OBJECTIVES
- To encourage and facilitate the enduring cultural, social and economic ties to Africa within the Western Hemisphere Diaspora communities;
- To develop and identify funding for capacity building projects by Diaspora civil society organizations in the Western Hemisphere Diaspora and the African Union
- To work with the African Union to create mechanism to represent the views, concerns and interests of the African Diaspora within the African regional organization.
WHADN MEMBERSHIP FORMS
WHADN CONTACT INFORMATION
The Foundation for Democracy in Africa
1612 K Street NW, Suite 1104
Washington, DC 20006
202-331-1333 (Phone)
202-331-8547 (Fax)
E-mail: comments@democracy-africa.org
WHAT IS WHADN? The Western Hemishpere African Diaspora Network (WHADN) was created to implement
Article 3(q)
(amended) of the Constitutive Act of the African Union (AU): [The Union shall] invite and encourge the full participation of the African Diaspora as an important part of our continent, in the building of the African Union." This initiative was launched during the historic
First African Union Western Hemisphere Diaspora Forum
held in Washington, D.C. from December 17-19, 2002, an event convened by the AU and coordinated by
The Foundation for Democracy in Africa. |
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