I am Rebeka Ndosi. My life is dedicated to serving youth of color and their support systems, including the adults in their lives (parents, grandparents, extended family, teachers, and community advocates). I am an author, healer (acupuncturist + yoga and meditation teacher) and healing justice community and business consultant. This land sanctuary is a dream that came through me as a coalescence of my ancestral lineage, the African diaspora, and the current reality of systemic racism that my family, friends, clients, and communities are experiencing every day.

Maji ya Chai is the name of the area of Tanzania where my family's land is located. My relatives have been mountain farmers of the Meru Tribe, for multiple generations. Sadly, our family land has been lost over the past few years. Since June 2020 my Ancestors have been waking me from my sleep with this vision — "Time to act!"

Maji ya Chai to Minnesota

My father, Eliawira Ndetaiywa Ndosi, grew up in Maji ya Chai and was the eldest son of his family. In 1960 he traveled to Northfield, MN to attend Carleton College. He would later meet my mother during graduate school at the University of Minnesota. They raised three children in the Twin Cities — my older sister, my younger brother, and me. In my life I have always been drawn to nature and found it to be essential for my own health and wellbeing. 

The Land Sanctuary is an honoring of land, lineage (where we came from), and legacy (what comes from us) as well as the ability we have — here and now — to heal and be who we are, creating the world we know is possible.