While poets express themselves with words, visual artists do so with painting or drawing. Painting creates an opportunity to convey ideas, express emotion, use senses, explore color, explore process and outcomes, and create aesthetically pleasing works and experiences. Every year, the world celebrates Creativity & Innovation Day on the 21st…
This month, our art program turned ten years old. What once started as an art class in a room of our community center in November 2011 has now bloomed into Uweza Art Gallery. Over the last 10 years, our art program has nurtured talented artists in Kibera by providing them…
(Photo credit: http://www.screenshotproductions.org) Covid-19 robbed people’s livelihoods. Communities like those Uweza supports experienced job losses and became even more vulnerable. At the height of the pandemic in 2020, families living in urban informal settlements were worst hit. With prolonged lockdowns, curfews and closure of schools; many were pushed to the…
Procuring Entity: Uweza Foundation Description: Supply of fabric and elastics Closing Date: 11th September, 2020 Uweza Foundation is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that empowers children and youth in Kibera, Kenya to pursue a path to a better future through the discovery and development of their talents and abilities. Uweza Foundation…
Last week, thanks to our partnership with Safe Hands Kenya (Tiba Ni Sisi), our Uweza Soccer Academy coaches joined by some senior team players, were able to carry out a door-to-door distribution of free soap to all of the young soccer players and their families. This also provided a good…
Thank you so much to Fieldtalk for your generous donation of rice. We were able to distribute it to 36 of our men’s and women’s senior soccer team players and know that it will be a big help to them and their families. We are grateful that you thought of…
We all do better when we work together. Today, we distributed 1,870 bars of soap to 11 different partner organizations as part of the Safe Hands Kenya ( Tiba Ni Sisi ) coalition. Each organization will distribute to a different set of households in Kibera, make sure that everyone in…
