#GivingTuesday is just four weeks from today! We will be spending every Tuesday leading up to the big day celebrating #ThankfulTuesday and dedicating our posts to appreciating groups and individuals who make our work possible. Today, our focus is on Uweza Art Gallery. To date, with your support, we have generated just over 5,200,000…
Our gallery was recently featured on a segment on Kenyan TV station NTV:
Happy International Day of the Girl! Golden Girls Power, our girls’ club named by the girls themselves, meets every Sunday. The club provides girls with a safe place to meet, learn, gain confidence, develop healthy, positive friendships, and be reminded on a regular basis that they are strong, powerful and…
This year, we have made the equal participation of girls and women one of our priorities in our soccer program, Uweza Soccer Academy. Although the number of Women’s and Girls Under-16 teams in the community is steadily rising, they don’t receive even close to the amount of support or attention…
Today, we launched a three-month sewing and tailoring course instructed by Kibera-bashed fashion designer David Avido. The students are members of our Bright Futures program for young mothers and our women’s soccer team. They will be covering all the basics of sewing and at the end, will be making products…
Last week, our photography students had the chance to attend a two-day Word Press Photo Photography Training at PAWA 254. The training was led by renowned Kenyan photographers and covered topics such as telling your own story, the importance of citizen journalism, using photography to promote environmental conservation and bring…
This week, Uzalendo News visited Uweza Art Gallery to speak with some of the artists and learn more about our work.
This week, students across Kenya return to school after a month-long break. Cedrick Joseph (Twin candids), a graduate of our photography class and resident of Kibera, has spent the last few weeks traveling around the slum and documenting how children spend their holiday. His photos and accompanying captions are a…
Austin joined the Uweza Soccer Academy men’s senior team last year. A few months ago, his coach learned that he scored a B+ on his KCSE exams, which he took in 2016. However, despite earning a grade that likely placed him in the top 3% of all exam takers in the…
