What is The Akron Rites of Passage Institute (AROPI)?

AROPI is the acronym for Akron Rites of Passage Institute. We are an African-centered 501c3 organization established with the purpose of educating, training and empowering its members/participants in African-centered Rites of Passage process, rituals, customs and practices. AROPI is dedicated to supporting and promoting all aspects of healthy growth and development of individuals, families, and the community.

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Restore

Restoring is a consistent call and commitment to putting forth effort to heal, achieve, excel and advance. It is only achieved from having a personal, ancestral and spiritual collective consciousness in an African-Centered Framework.  Our restoration must be founded on our best traditional African consciousness, culture, principles and values. It is then that we will take our rightful place of leadership and example in the world.

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Rebuild

We must purposefully rebuild or reconstruct ourselves as individuals, family, community, nation and race.  We must intentionally work to support and establish African coalitions, businesses and institutions that meet our needs and well-being today and for our future.

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What Is Rites Of Passage?

Rites of Passage is a life changing, spiritual and cultural transformational process that assists men and women, boys and girls in making a successful entry into a new life situation, or in making a successful departure from a disturbing life crisis.

From the time we are born, we are in a constant state of flux and evolution. As we make these changes, we begin to seek the answer to three important questions: Who Am I? Why Am I Here? What Is My Purpose? Rites of Passage is a model that assists us in the transition of one phase of life to the next.

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The Legacy Building Project

AROPI’s Legacy Building Project is one of Akron’s most exciting, historical, empowering, community endeavors of our lifetime. Why? It is the first facility focused on educating and empowering the Black community towards economic self-sufficiency since Marcus Garvey’s Division #215 of the University Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League.

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