About: Noo Covers
Daawud (Noo Covers) El-Amin is the Chairman of Noo Covers Gambian Mission and Community Tourism Inc. A Wilmington N.C. based company which specializes in African community development, through afrocentric education. He is first and farmost a Pan African, and strongly belives in the philosophy of Pan Africanism. He has been a community activist for almost thirty years. His activities and affiliations have included; Trans Africa, Forever Freedom Fighters, World Community of Al-Islam in the West, Coalition for a Drug Free World, Elevating Communities to Higher Opportunities (ECHO), Direct Support Professionals, Leading Into New Communities (LINC), Nation of Islam, and The Blue Ribbon Commission on Youth Violence, and the UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association). He is a father five boys and one daughter, and countless other self adopted children who call him their father. His children, by blood, extended, home, and abroad are his greatest joy. As he likes to call them all “his babies.”
He is the author of four books and a two volume collection of African American History. You can locate most of his books under his pen name Noo Covers and Amazon and his own web site. He is considered by many of his peers as an expert in black male development, using African base concepts and practices. When once asked by a college professor; “What makes you an expert?” His reply was direct; “I have been a Black Man in America for over 53 years, and I have survived, and escape all the traps that this country has laid at my doorsteps. So I’m living proof, I’m the one that got away.”
In 2015 Daawud decided to invest his personal funds on two family members from The Gambia he had meet on social media. Seeing the impact that direct funding had on their lives and the lives of families around them. Daawud begin to study the major aid organazation’s delivering goods and services to Africa. After thorough research of their success and failures, Daawud created Noo Covers Gambian Mission and launched it as a Non-Profit along with The David Walker Cultural Center. His goal was simple. To get rid of the post card of children needing aid and a donation button. He would use social media to shine a direct light on the need and a closer look at the transactions being made by his donors. The result, within the first year Noo Covers Gambian Mission has drop 12,000lbs of rice in one compounds helping feed about 15 families, and have worked with two schools. And they are just getting warmed up. You can find more under the link: “Noo Cover Gambian Mission.”
The end goal for Daawud (Noo Covers ) El-Amin is simple.
“I simply want the philosophy that holds one race inferior to another, discredited and abandoned, THEN we can all live as one”
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