BAKARI FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
The Bakari Foundation provides transformative travel experiences for families who have lost loved ones at the hands of another and empowers underserved youth to revitalize distressed communities.
About This Cause
The Vision of The Bakari Foundation is to provide Healing, Peace, and Clarity for families in mourning; Honoring the life and legacy of our beloved Bakari Henderson. We provide all-expense-paid transformative travel experiences, counseling, and related services to families who have lost a loved one at the hands of another in addition to programs to empower underserved youth. • We provide Immersive, Transformative Travel Retreats and Weekend Bootcamps for Families. The retreat is used to illuminate our goal of repairing the ills of hate, racism, and poverty. The program is a 7-day all-inclusive laser-focused international experience without the day-to-day distractions. We provide unique, intensive counseling sessions and workshops with expert, licensed therapists that address the combined effects of trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and grief. We work on rebuilding connections with families that may be lost when dealing with trauma through scheduled, balanced physical and therapeutic activities. Families walk away with tools and resources for continuing at-home progress. The Bootcamp program was conceptualized based on the need to expand the positive outcomes we tracked in our post Immersive, Transformative Travel Retreats surveys and is a weekend experience which includes the most critical components of the Immersive Retreat. • We provide intervention, pathways toward healing, and foundational underpinnings for productive living through financial literacy and entrepreneurship education, and support services for youth. Our objectives are: 1. To improve economic growth 2. Create financial stability 3. Eliminate the Black/White wealth gap 4. Establish economic justice in underserved communities 5. Restore mental health within marginalized communities • We strive to educate African-American and other minority population youth on voting, their rights, the judicial system, how laws impact them, and how to change oppressive policies. • We partner with the Austin Independent School District to contribute school supplies to disenfranchised, underserved elementary schools in East Austin.