Status — as of April 2025

Our Healing Scholarship Fund is currently paused, as all available funds have been fully distributed.

We remain in committed accompaniment with current recipients—even beyond the availability of formal funding. Updates will be shared here when new scholarship slots become available.

Support Our Healing Scholarship Fund

At Sankofa Rising, we believe healing should be relational, liberatory, and accessible—not reserved for the privileged few.

This fund was created in January 2024 in response to an urgent and ongoing need within our community. Many of those we accompany—especially within BIPOC and Global South contexts—face systemic barriers shaped by colonial legacies, economic injustice, and restricted access to care.

Your contribution helps sustain Sacred Accompaniment Sessions and Consultations for individuals navigating grief, trauma, fragmentation, and disconnection—especially those whose conditions remain unseen by mainstream systems.

This is not charity. This is what Mallence Bart-Williams calls sharity—a practice rooted in mutuality, dignity, and shared belonging. Charity often implies hierarchy or pity; sharity affirms that we are part of an interwoven web.

Giving here is a relational act, not an extractive one. It acknowledges that healing justice and shared prosperity require all of us—those who receive and those who give—to be in right relationship. You may not receive a physical product in return, but you are investing in collective thriving, in the liberation of others, and in the restoration of a world where care is reciprocal, not commodified.

Your offering—no matter the size—helps more people return to themselves, their ancestors, and the Earth.

👉🏾 Please consider contributing today to support someone’s decolonial healing journey.

Our community feedback…

  • Sacred Accompaniment Sessions

    kenyatta has been a trusted guide in my journey through some of my biggest challenges. she is someone who feels safe, kind, patient, wise, playful, and deeply caring to me. the things that seem so impossible to witness, feel, admit, or disentangle feel calm, simple, and normal in her presence (normal meaning free from shame). with her support, i've grown to love and accept myself in ways that i've dreamed of and hoped for. i know that the challenges will keep arising as i continue on my life path and i feel so much more confident and brave in meeting them after so much hard and gentle work with kenyatta. 

    —Ophelia, USA
    received partial scholarship

  • new year SOULmatic reset retreat

    "thank you for that incredible retreat. you led a powerful session. i left with my soul feeling lighter.

    —Tia, USA
    received partial scholarship

  • new year SOULmatic reset retreat

    “This was a beautiful offering to begin the new year! You know how to gently guide us to connect with the earth and our blood ancestors in a very deep way. The wisdom shared in the retreat about decolonizing our mind and body are very helpful and nourishing.

    —Sal, Mississipi USA
    received full scholarship

  • sangha facilitation

    I wanted to say thank you to Kenyatta for today's facilitation. I have felt depleted and Kenyatta's skillful facilitation was nourishing, replenishing, and soothing.

    May you feel resourced and connected.

    Much gratitude. Deep bow,

    —Ki, USA


  • monthly writing

    Thanks for your very healing words and your desire to help us heal.  It was really a soothing and inspirational read.

    —Chinara

  • monthly SOULmatic gathering

    “I was put into an extremely relaxed state. Giving thanks for the session Kenyatta.

    —Anu

  • monthly SOULmatic gathering

    Kenyatta has a very gentle leadership style that makes you want to go deeper.

    —Aaliyah

  • unstillness - let life move me

    “The unstillness journey really helped me become a better listener to my body. I was able to apply The tools I was introduced to during the sessions into my daily practices. I’m so appreciative of this experience.

    —Shanti, California USA
    receive a partial scholarship

  • unstillness - let life move me

    “It was really helpful to me to have guided practice into exploring these ideas and experiences through my body and movement. My natural tendency is to be very cerebral and approach my feelings, experiences and challenges by talking or writing ABOUT them, which I am really good at. This is why talk therapy hasn't worked well for me. What I need is support to FEEL into myself, my memories, my feelings and experiences without tapping out into verbalizing and intellectualizing to escape the actual body and emotional experience. This course was exactly what I have been looking for. I was also really impressed with the degree to which we were able to build an authentic sense of community in virtual space.

    —Amani, California USA

  • unstillness - let life move me

    “The circle was one of the most empowering journeys of my life. For the first time, I trusted that I knew what was best for me, healing self-doubt and giving me a peace I never knew.

    —Lipika

✨past scholarship recipients: A Living Archive💫

the healing scholarship fund was started january 2024 based on a need in our BIPOC community

Below is a month-by-month record of how the Healing Scholarship Fund has been activated in real time. It reflects our ongoing commitment to accompaniment, even when funding is limited, and the many people who continue to walk this path with us.

june 2025 - we continue to work with person F and person I even though the scholarship funds have been exhausted.

may 2025 - we continue to work with person F and person I even though the scholarship funds have been exhausted.

april 2025 - the healing scholarship funds have been exhausted. we continue to work with person F and person I even though the scholarship funds have been exhausted.

march 2025 - person F and person I are now receiving scholarship again.

february 2025 - we continue to work with person F and person I even though the scholarship funds have been exhausted.

january 2025 - we continue to work with person F and person I even though the scholarship funds have been exhausted

december 2024 - we continue to work with person F and person I even though the scholarship funds have been exhausted

november 2024 - the healing scholarship funds have been exhausted. we continue to see person F, person I as well as resuming seeing person C again after a break. we need your support to sustainably offer this service and continue this work. we are looking at Mallence Bart-Williams’ “sharity” instead of “charity” model of exchange.

october 2024 - person I started receiving scholarship for one-on-one support. person F continues to receive scholarship for one-on-one support. our scholarship is currently full we will let you know when more opens back up.

september 2024 - person F continues to receive scholarship for one-on-one support / trauma care.

august 2024 - person F continues to receive scholarship for one-on-one support / trauma care.

july 2024 - person F continues to receive scholarship for one-on-one support / trauma care.

june 2024 - person F, G&H continue to receive scholarship for one-on-one support / trauma care.

may 2024 - person C, F, G&H continue to receive scholarship for one-on-one support / trauma care.

april 2024 - person C continues to receive scholarship for one-on-one support / trauma care.

- persons F, G&H started receiving scholarship for one-on-one support / trauma care.

march 2024 - person D & E each received 50% scholarship to attend the yellow flower’s women network UNSTOPPABLE retreat.

february 2024 - present - person C have been receiving scholarship for one-on-one support / trauma care

january 2024 - person B received a full scholarship to attend the new year SOULmatic reset retreat

january 2024 - person A received a partial scholarship to attend the new year SOULmatic reset retreat