Sol Adventurers Foundation

Sol Adventurers Foundation is a 501 c3 NonProfit Organization

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Sol Adventurers Foundation is working with youth in Los Angeles and Jamaica. Our misson is to assist disenfranchised individuals, especially youth to discover their gift, share them with the world and gain strength through reconnecting with the community. Sol Adventurers will facilitate and provide needed services to these individuals through education, advovacy, empowerment and program implementation.

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Sol Adventurers Foundation: director@soladventurersfoundation.com

tel: (323) 445-9014

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"Never doubt that a small group of thougtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

~Margaret Mead

Our work is to provide the youth with the support they need to find their passions, living more fully and giving back to their communities. Along with one on one mentoring to discover their gifts we also offer enrichment programs in: African drumming, Capoeria, Hip Hop, Reggae, Arts, Yoga, Swimming, Sailing, Agroculture, Performance and much more. We seek to re-establish the connection between elders and youth through the development of apprenticeships. By reconnecting the youth with their community, they will gain strength and feel empowered and confident in the belief that they are doing something to make a difference. We will assess and address the following areas: medical / psychiatric issues, social /interpersonal,recreation, self-management, education/vocational, family & belief system. Based on the assessment, we will offer emotional support, education, advocacy, skills building and problem solving strategies. We are fund- raising in order to offer our services free of charge to youth in Los Angeles and Jamaica who could never afford to have these services. We need your help to raise $250,000.

Reggae Connection Takes This Adventure From South L.A. to Jamaica

Carib Press, Profile, Sheannette Virtue, May 15, 2009

<< Roseanne Ware discovers a gift and sets out to share it with children in need. >>

The Sol Adventurers work with youth to enhance creativity through music, art, writing and movement

Music has made a difference for Sol Adventurers, a non-profit organization committed to empowering young people even as they struggle with crippling diseases or face the challenges that come from growing up in homeless shelters in Los Angeles or orphanages in Jamaica. The empowerment comes when the children discover their personal gifts and share them with the world, according to Roseanne Ware, founder of the group, which is known simply as Sol, which means sunshine in Spanish. The idea, Ware says, is to teach youths how to seek more hopeful destiny for themselves. Ware has some experience on seeking hope amid hard times. Her own life took an unexpected twist four years ago after a vicious pit bull nearly proved fatal. "I found strength and inner gifts from a near-death encounter," she says. "It came to me that I was supposed to be empowering those in need to discover their gifts and to follow that path to reach their full potential, mentoring and helping them to get the necessary resources to do so." According to Ware, the name Sol Adventurers came to her from a line in the Bob Marley's song "Soul Rebel". "It was a perfect fit because this is precisely what we are doing — adventuring into each youth's soul to help them find their gift," she says, adding that she drew strength and inspiration through the positive images of reggae music and the overarching influence of Marley's work. The connection to reggae is one reason that Ware has extended the Sol Adventures program to rural Jamaica. "Despite horrific conditions of poverty and violence, many inspirational artists such as Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Israel Vibrations and others were able to discover their gifts and share them with the world," she says.

The Sol Adventurers' goal is to teach youth how to seek more hopeful destiny for themselves

Back at her home base, Sol Adventurers' is currently working on an LA Conservation Corp after-school program at Henry Clay Middle School in South Los Angeles. The six-week curriculum gives students hands-on, interactive sessions that encompass visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning style to enhance creativity through music, art, writing and movement. The objective is to teach students about African history and the impact it has on the global community. Music, basic gardening skills and the exploration of students' cultural roots all combine to help them unearth their gifts.
It's a big change for Ware, who attended Loyola University of Chicago and obtained a masters degree in clinical social work. She has worked in the social work and psychology field for 17 years, and she used to work for an elite list of clients enough resources to pursue just about any direction life.
Now Ware is dedicated to bringing new opportunities to individuals with far fewer options, counting on private donations, funding from local after-school programs, and fundraising activities to keep the program going. She says she's also working on a compilation CD of music to offer to donors in hopes of taking the organization's funding level to $250,000.