Whenever you read this initial post, know that the O.K.A.Y. Community extends its warmest welcome to you and invites you into our project with open arms.
What is the O.K.A.Y. Community? The O.K.A.Y. Community is a community based organization that seeks to improve the quality of life in a community by any and all means necessary utilizing Our Knowledge and Action Through Youth to do so. All projects associated with the O.K.A.Y Community has a strong youth element, both in planning and maintenance as well as the effected population. We believe that by increasing Our Knowledge and Action through Youth, we can have a community, where we can truly say everything is O.K.A.Y.
What does the O.K.A.Y Community do? Currently, the O.K.A.Y Community is developing and working with a unit of integrated programs and organizations to have a comprehensive impact on the Mississippi Delta Community and other communities around the world. Our partners and projects include the following:
Partners: Successful Brothers: http://successfulbrothers.blogspot.com
Se7enth Swan: http://se7enthswan.com
Sunflower County Freedom Project: http:// www.sunflowerfreedom.org
Programs: Cans Film Festival (Recycling Initivative, Fall 2006, Ongoing)
R.E.D.O.: Rural Economic Development Organization (Spring, 2008)
G.O.O.D. Ideas: Getting Out Our Dreams through Ideas:(Ongoing)
Project Visibility: Seeing role models means believing you can be one...
(Spring 2008, Chapel Hill, NC)
More to come....
What Can I do to Help? The O.K.A.Y Community is dependent upon people understanding the value of empowering our youth. Find a way to interact with the youth in your community and empower them through knowledge and action. Then, let us and everyone else know about it. Together, we can make it happen. The Mississippi Delta is the headquarters of O.K.A.Y. Community and always benefits from visitors coming to help. So, we welcome you down here and you'll always have a place to stay, but don't wait for your trip down here to take action. Our youth and communities need help everywhere and the best place for you to start is where you have a passion for. Perhaps that's where you live or maybe where you grow up. Wherever it is, find it, get started, and let's make it happen.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, indeed it's the only that ever has."
-Margaret Mead.
-Margaret Mead.
Contact Us:
Email: okaycommunity@gmail.com
Mailing Address: 111 East Percy Street
Indianola, MS 38751
Phone and Fax: 662-887-7767 (Both the same, just call ahead at let us know :))
