Faces Up Uganda

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Faces Up Uganda

🇺🇬Youth#7 last 12 months
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Nov 2025$0Substantial1
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Jan 2026$0Limited2
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Jun 2026$0Moderate1
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Sep 2026$0Substantial1
Oct 2026$0Moderate3

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Health$0 · 0%
Innovation$0 · 0%
Faces Up UgandaVerified
YouthUgandaEst. 2016Emmanuel Ssekitto Kalule

About

Faces Up Uganda is a youth-led nonprofit organization based in Kampala, Uganda, established in 2016 to empower children and young people from vulnerable and underserved communities through creative arts education, mentorship, and personal development. The organization uses art as a tool for healing, self-expression, confidence-building, and social inclusion, helping young people overcome barriers that affect their education and future opportunities.

The organization provides arts-based learning and psychosocial support to children and young people, both in and out of school. Through its Art as Therapy programme, Faces Up Uganda uses creative activities to help learners express their emotions, develop self-awareness, strengthen their social skills, and improve their engagement in education. It also works with educators to integrate arts education into learning environments and better support students' social and emotional needs.

Faces Up Uganda promotes economic empowerment through its Artpreneurship initiative, which equips young people with creative skills, mentorship, and opportunities to earn income from their artwork. Through its social enterprise, Faces Up Store, children's artwork is transformed into products such as greeting cards, clothing, bags, and other merchandise. A portion of the proceeds supports school fees for children from financially disadvantaged backgrounds, while another portion helps sustain creative learning activities.

In addition, Faces Up Uganda encourages young people to become active problem-solvers and community leaders through creativity, critical thinking, and collaborative learning. Its Design for Change approach helps young people develop innovative responses to social, economic, and environmental challenges in their communities. By combining arts education, psychosocial support, entrepreneurship, and youth leadership, Faces Up Uganda aims to help children and young people learn, heal, earn, and thrive in school and in life.

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Faces Up Uganda trained 20 young women and men in practical workshop skills and employed two young people as trainers. Cause: Education.
Educationtrained 20 young women and men in practical workshop skills and employed two young people as trainers
Faces Up Uganda supported 167 primary and secondary students to raise school fees through purchases of merchandise featuring their artwork. Cause: Education.
Educationsupported 167 primary and secondary students to raise school fees through purchases of merchandise featuring their artwork
Faces Up Uganda presented findings from its assessment of 506 children in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement to government agencies, UNHCR and humanitarian organisations in Hoima to inform child-centred psychosocial support and protection responses on 2026-10-01. Cause: Health.
Healthpresented findings from its assessment of 506 children in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement to government agencies, UNHCR and humanitarian organisations in Hoima to inform child-centred psychosocial support and protection responses
Faces Up Uganda convened more than 200 student leaders from art clubs across 30 primary schools in Rubaga Division at Mengo Primary School for practical leadership, teamwork, inclusion and problem-solving activities on 2026-09-19. Cause: Education.
Educationconvened more than 200 student leaders from art clubs across 30 primary schools in Rubaga Division at Mengo Primary School for practical leadership, teamwork, inclusion and problem-solving activities
Faces Up Uganda supported children at Suubi Community Development Organisation in Mubende District to use art to express their perspectives on children’s rights, education, food, clean water, peace and security on 2026-06-16. Cause: Education.
Educationsupported children at Suubi Community Development Organisation in Mubende District to use art to express their perspectives on children’s rights, education, food, clean water, peace and security
Faces Up Uganda facilitated an art activity at Uganda School for the Deaf in which learners identified personal strengths and represented supportive people, places and experiences through drawings and collages on 2026-01-01. Cause: Education.
Educationfacilitated an art activity at Uganda School for the Deaf in which learners identified personal strengths and represented supportive people, places and experiences through drawings and collages
Faces Up Uganda facilitated inclusive creative expression at Kampala School for the Physically Handicapped through a colouring activity that allowed children to communicate their experiences using pictures, gestures, words or artwork on 2026-01-01. Cause: Education.
Educationfacilitated inclusive creative expression at Kampala School for the Physically Handicapped through a colouring activity that allowed children to communicate their experiences using pictures, gestures, words or artwork
Faces Up Uganda conducted an arts-based mental health and psychosocial support assessment involving 506 children and adolescents across four primary schools in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement on 2025-11-01. Cause: Health.
Healthconducted an arts-based mental health and psychosocial support assessment involving 506 children and adolescents across four primary schools in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement
Faces Up Uganda documented the journey of a young refugee artist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who developed artistic skills while rebuilding her life in Uganda on 2025-07-18. Cause: Education.
Educationdocumented the journey of a young refugee artist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who developed artistic skills while rebuilding her life in Uganda
Faces Up Uganda published and shared practical principles for facilitating arts-education sessions that provide children with safe, structured opportunities for creative expression and personal development on 2025-01-15. Cause: Education.
Educationpublished and shared practical principles for facilitating arts-education sessions that provide children with safe, structured opportunities for creative expression and personal development
Faces Up Uganda collaborated with technology volunteers on a pro bono initiative combining art and coding to strengthen the organisation’s ability to measure and communicate its arts-education impact on 2024-12-01. Cause: Innovation.
Innovationcollaborated with technology volunteers on a pro bono initiative combining art and coding to strengthen the organisation’s ability to measure and communicate its arts-education impact
Faces Up Uganda hosted the Uganda Alcohol Policy Alliance for a learning visit to exchange approaches on creativity, arts, children and youth programming on 2024-10-31. Cause: Education.
Educationhosted the Uganda Alcohol Policy Alliance for a learning visit to exchange approaches on creativity, arts, children and youth programming
Faces Up Uganda highlighted the use of creative expression to help marginalised adolescents communicate emotions and psychosocial challenges, including through an EUTF Youth Art Competition in Rhino refugee settlement on 2023-10-10. Cause: Health.
Healthhighlighted the use of creative expression to help marginalised adolescents communicate emotions and psychosocial challenges, including through an EUTF Youth Art Competition in Rhino refugee settlement
Faces Up Uganda conducted a mentorship and art session at a school after a headteacher invited the organisation to help students develop confidence and express themselves creatively on 2023-01-01. Cause: Education.
Educationconducted a mentorship and art session at a school after a headteacher invited the organisation to help students develop confidence and express themselves creatively
Faces Up Uganda raised US$2,000 through artwork sales, product sales and donations to help 14-year-old Hashim receive neurosurgery after a road accident caused a blood clot in his skull on 2022-02-08. Cause: Health.
Healthraised US$2,000 through artwork sales, product sales and donations to help 14-year-old Hashim receive neurosurgery after a road accident caused a blood clot in his skull
Faces Up Uganda used proceeds from children’s artwork to cover school fees for children from financially constrained households, helping two sisters return to school in 2021 on 2020-01-01. Cause: Education.
Educationused proceeds from children’s artwork to cover school fees for children from financially constrained households, helping two sisters return to school in 2021

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