The ADES mission is to instill a sense of community on a local and national
and international level by giving Africans an overall view of what it means to be African, and how the welfare of each community
contributes to the care, wellness, and pride of Africa as a whole. This mission is to be carried out in Africa, but
also as our people migrate around the globe, that they still reflect the positive nature, awareness, and education of their
African heritage. By doing so, individual Africans give back to Africa’s individual nations, educate non-Africans,
and help bring Africa into the 21st century as a fully participatory country by virtue of the education of its people.
Further, ADES strives to achieve these ends by providing equal opportunity
for education, information, and prevention to the African youth wherever they live, regardless of their ethnicity, religion,
race, or social status.
B. Objectives:
In order to educate our young Africans to participate in a changing world that demands increasingly
more of its constituents, ADES outlines the following objectives to help achieve its mission:
F Establish the first Miss Africa Pageant that will provide scholarship monies for education for the young women who
show the most promise for educational advancement, achievement, and public service. This will also unite all African nations under one banner, while still emphasizing their
own uniqueness.
F Recognize that Africans have spread around the globe, and that our duty
to Africans must include uniting Africa with its Diaspora.
F Educate African youth and youth of the African Diaspora about
HIV/AIDS prevention. HIV/AIDS remains one of the greatest threats to our communities and society as a whole. Our
youth can become one of our greatest forces of education and prevention in this area by helping themselves and other youth
in their community.
F Education is a necessity, not a commodity. We need to support
disadvantaged African youth and youth of the African Diaspora in their educational goals.
F In order to be fully participatory in the 21st century, Africans
must encounter and engage in a global economy and marketplace. It is not the objective of ADES to encourage the homogenization
of Africans into any other dominant culture. In order to accomplish a move forward without compromising Africa’s
heritage and past, we need to celebrate the African culture, art, and spirit.
