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.
For far too long, too many of us have been miseducated. It is time for us to reclaim (Sankofa) who we are in our own African image, culturally and historically. We must remember and choose to be free.
We must reclaim our African mind, legacy, spirit of excellence and demand justice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reducing energy use reduces energy costs and result in a financial cost saving to consumers.
We deserve clean air to breathe and a sustain-able future that is responsive to challenges by climate change.
Reducing energy use reduces energy costs and result in a financial cost saving to consumers.
Water is at the heart of adaptation to climate change, it is the link between the climate, human society.
The surface water quality standards help protect, control and regulate the quality of fresh and marine waters.
Energy conservation are efforts made to reduce the consumption of energy by using less of an energy service.
Rainforest Trust purchases and protects the most threatened tropical forests, saving endangered wildlife through partnerships and community engagement.
Through these highly effective partnerships, we can ensure sustainable results necessary for the long-term protection of tropical ecosystems and the wildlife they hold.
We runs the only legal rescue center which does rehabilitation of wounded, sick and abandoned rainforest animals on the Pacific coast.
With two full time highly skilled Wildlife Biologists, overseeing all of the wildlife at KSTR, and she has been with KSTR for nine years.
The team and Dr. Martin work with professional staff and volunteers, including many budding primatologists, to provide state of the art care for approximately 200 wild animals rescued each year. Without this center, most of these animals would die!
People Saving the Rainforest
is looking to raise its goals to include a reforestation project that will include at least 94,000 trees, according to a statement issued by the group.
The goal is being led to fruition thanks to a donation of around 117 hectares, of land that the donor owned as a teak farm before it was harvested back in April 2016, according to the group’s co-founder Jan Alcare. The property will be used not only for reforestation, but also to release some rescued wildlife on it, according to the organization.
Three of the cutest, sweetest, and most special two-toed sloths you will ever meet. Their story is one that we hope will make scientific history and provide vast amounts of knowledge about sloth behavior that hasn’t existed until now.
What makes these three so incredibly special and unique is that they were brought to KSTR as orphans and have been successfully hand raised by an amazing group of volunteers led by “sloth mama” Sam Trull who serves as the organization’s Wildlife Manager and “mom” to the orphans.
June 21, 2022
Akron Rites of Passage Institute
P.O. Box 22315
Akron, OH 44302
email: akronropi@gmail.com
Akron Rites of Passage Institute
The University of Akron
225 S. Main St., Suite 302J
Akron, OH 44325
AROPI Contact: (216) 438-1246
Legacy Building Project Contact: (330) 573-2774