We have reached 3320 young people, organized 2 mentorship dialogues, 2 art exhibitions, and reached over 700,000 people online. Through the Faces Up Store, our fundraising arm, we have so far enabled 15 children to raise school fees from products that feature designs inspired by their original artworks. Because of our great work, in 2020, we were shortlisted for the Top40Under40 in Uganda, we were nominated in 2018 for the Africa Youth Leader Of the Year, accepted for the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI), Change Makers Exchange (CXC) 2019 and in 2017; we were also nominated for the Young Achievers awards.
To better serve the young people, we have established our community centre in Bakuluugi Zone, Masanafu – the centre has an art space for children to learn the art and an equipped workshop for the youths to acquire hands-on skills in shoemaking, bags and also basic fashion. We are working on establishing a library to encourage community members to read more. When we look at where we started, where we are, and say that this is just the beginning.