Raise Yuh Voice Jamaica
Raise Yuh Voice: In Solidarity for a Violence-Free Jamaica
We are raising $200,000 to Build a Survivor Healing Center HUB that provides critical skills and tools for womyn, girls and LGBTQIX communities. The Center will amplify the voices of survivors in Jamaica, until the violence stops!
Spirit Drumz, began Raise Yuh Voice: Women in Solidarity for a Violence-Free Jamaica to bridge the gap from silence to empowerment for the outrageous number of women and girls whose voices are silenced. With violence against women/girls/trans figures in the Caribbean surging, and little attention on our emotional sovereignty, there is dire need for a HUB that offers emotional development tools in the hands of our most vulnerable community members, enfranchising them as activists armed with self-resilience tools.
SoulFree Journey Wellness Retreat
Personal Souljourn Retreats: Anchor your wellness whether it be your calling to the land, sea, river, drum, nutritional wellness guidance, farm-to-table gardening, permaculture, island-wide cultural tours, joining our solidarity movement, woofing, or whatever your heart is pulling you towards. Dive deep into liberation practices that cultivate resiliency while nurturing radical self-care. LET US HEAL TOGETHER! WE REMEMBER! INITIATION RITES!
Workshops and Courses
What's your hearts desire? Ignite your passion, purpose and power. Our Release and process rage, grief, and intergenerational trauma. Find your voice, and Ignite your power with activations by Afia Walking Tree and the Spirit Drumz team. Infuse your conference, convergence, social justice action, march, ceremony, camp, festival and more with powerful drum and earth based offerings.
About Spirit Drumz
Spirit Drumz envisions a violence-free world through social justice and leadership initiatives. Our practice is to significantly increase the expression and exposure of the drumming arts and earth-based spiritual practices as tools for self empowerment, community mobilization and collective healing; prioritizing womyn, girls, and transgender African diasporic, Indigenous folx, and accomplices.
TESTIMONIALS
Eve Ensler,
Founder and Artistic Director of V-Day and One Billion Rising
“I am so moved, uplifted, and totally excited by the extraordinary work you are doing in Jamaica, I know I speak for all of us when I say how proud we are to be in sisterhood and solidarity with you and the women of Jamaica. You are doing it my sister! So much love and admiration.”
Rachelle Galloway-Popotas
Haas Institute for
Fair and Inclusive Society
"Thanks for your wonderful and very powerful contribution to our Othering & Belonging Conference. It was instrumental to the outcome and built so much connective tissue among what could have felt like disparate pieces. The vibrancy an positivity - just incredible talent - you brought to the conference was essential"
Kimberle Crenshaw
Executive Director
African American Policy Forum
"From the very beginning we wanted the drum apart of camp.
Afia Walking Tree has made this a reality, and I can't imagine camp without her."