Empowering Communities

An Anthropologist is said to have proposed a competitive game involving a group of African children of varying ages. The children did not know each other and the Anthropologist placed a bag of sweets/candy 100 meters away under a big baobab tree. The children were then asked to race against each other and whichever child got to the goodie

An Anthropologist is said to have proposed a competitive game involving a group of African children of varying ages. The children did not know each other and the Anthropologist placed a bag of sweets/candy 100 meters away under a big baobab tree. The children were then asked to race against each other and whichever child got to the goodies first, got to keep them all to him/herself. The children proceeded to the starting line and held hands. And then they started to run together in a straight line and side-by-side towards the tree; - and they all got to the finish-line at the same time. They then took the sweets/candy and divided them equally among themselves. The Anthropologist was astonished and asked the children as they joyfully consumed their sweets/candy, why they had done this? 

"Ubuntu" was their unanimous response. "How can any one of us be happy if the others are sad?"  Ubuntu, loosely translated from the Nguni languages means "I am because we are". It is a plethora of positive traits that make a person a good and decent member of the collective. It is these attributes that we seek and intend to evoke via our numerous initiatives all over the world. 

Ubuntu means humility, compassion, integrity, and a plethora of other positive human traits which constitute a decent human-being that exists in a good and connected society. We seek to evoke and foster these attributes of humanity and good citizenship via charity work that facilitate worthy yet obscure causes worldwide. 

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Ubuntu means humility, compassion, integrity, and a plethora of other positive human traits which constitute a decent human-being that exists in a good and connected society. We seek to evoke and foster these attributes of humanity and good citizenship via charity work that facilitate worthy yet obscure causes worldwide. 

We have found that sometimes large charitable organizations are incapacitated by their sheer sizes and gargantuan objectives. Our small size enables us to engage on a one-on-one basis in the most remote and unreported corners of our world, thus ensuring effective impact on some of the most disenfranchised members of our communities. We are cognizant that we may not reach everyone, but we do touch those that some may have believed to be unreachable children and people of the world. 

 Anny S. Delance-Silamba is the Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Ubuntu International Foundation (UIF). She is a devoted wife and busy mother of six.  Anny has also previously engaged in the assistance of caring for children and high-risk youth in the New York City area as an active and registered Foster and Adoptive Parent. 

 Anny S. Delance-Silamba is the Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Ubuntu International Foundation (UIF). She is a devoted wife and busy mother of six.  Anny has also previously engaged in the assistance of caring for children and high-risk youth in the New York City area as an active and registered Foster and Adoptive Parent. She has also conducted financial literacy programs as well as engaged in numerous charitable initiatives in the U.S and the Dominican Republic.As a professional, Ms. Delance has over 20 years in the financial services industry. Her experience and extensive expertise is in the areas of Real Estate Brokerage, Commercial Finance, Mortgages and Banking.

Percy Z. Silamba Sr., is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Ubuntu International Foundation. He is a seasoned business executive and legal expert with extensive experience in the global business, law and philanthropic arenas. Mr Silamba sits on numerous non-profit  boards both locally and internationally that include The International Corporation, the Olivia Diamond Group, (UK), the Center for Media and Peace Initiatives, (USA) and the Matabeleland Development Initiative (Zimbabwe), - just to mention a few organisations.
Professionally, Mr. Silamba has over 25 years of extensive legal and  financial services expertise which he acquired during his tenures with global financial conglomerates such as Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase.