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Mutual Union of the Tiv in America |
The Mutual Union of the Tiv in America (MUTA) is a nonprofit, nonpolitical, nonsectarian, humanitarian, membership-supported service organization whose primary objectives are to:
- Provide social, recreational, and cultural education to individuals in the field of employment opportunities, education, health welfare and housing to enable these individuals to become assimilated into the mainstream society.
- Create a home-away-from-home for newly arriving immigrants or students from Africa and elsewhere.
- Raise funds for educational scholarships for the disadvantaged.
- Help build a civil society in Tivland (Nigeria) by promoting voluntary, cooperative initiatives through technical assistance in agriculture, water resources, healthcare delivery systems and rehabilitation, small business development, and self-sufficiency.
- Distribute to victims, in times of disaster, donated food, clothing, medical supplies and equipment, agricultural seeds and textbooks worldwide without regard to race, nationality, creed, or political affiliation.
- Work toward a strengthening of social, cultural, economic and scientific ties between the Tiv people of Nigeria and the people of the United States of America by promoting the exchange of cultural, scientific, and technology-based innovations for the well-being of all.
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