Mission
AFAAD is a nonprofit organization connecting, supporting, and advocating for the needs of the African Diasporic adoption and foster community on a global level, through community outreach, political work, research/scholarship and social gatherings.
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AFAAD is an international political, social (we like gathering!), research oriented non-profit organization that attends to the specific concerns of adopted and fostered adults across the African diaspora. we are adult black adoptees, we are transracial adoptees, we are foster children across the world. We are adopted to London from the US, we are adopted to Sweden from Ghana, we are international and global in every way. We are multi-cultural, at times multi-racial, sometimes same-race adoptees - we are the diaspora.
Our mission emerges partially from our commitment to ensure conversations around adoption progress in a way that include contributions by adult adoptees. We support and make visible those who are doing the research, constructing the policies or creating the artwork and films. We place race, culture and connection at the forefront of our transracial, same race adoption and foster care stories.
Our mission also emerges from our beliefs that providing international connections and virtual space to make visible the adoption and foster community in African diasporic cultures worldwide will give support to those who otherwise are isolated in their experiences, and give voice to a powerful message about kinship, family, race and global black identities.
