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Imagine a World where young people’s #creativity enables them to pay for their education. Every item you purchase, you support their 🎓 @facesupuganda !

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We are honoured to have our founder @kalulemma nominated for the International Business Achiever Award (IBAA 2026).

Grateful to see the journey and work of our team at Faces Up Uganda being recognized on an international stage.

This recognition is bigger than one person. It reflects the creativity, resilience, and potential of the young people and communities we serve every day through art, education, and healing-centered spaces.

A big thank you to the organizers @mgibescollege , UK in Ghana for this recognition and for creating platforms that celebrate leaders and changemakers across the globe.

If you will be in Accra this weekend, Emmanuel will be staying a few extra days after the event and would be glad to connect with fellow creatives, educators, social entrepreneurs, partners, and friends working to create meaningful impact across Africa.

Feel free to drop a DM.
📍 British Council, Accra – Ghana
🗓️ Saturday, 30th May 2026
🕓 4:00 PM

#IBAA2026 #FacesUp #CreativeYouthDevelopment #SocialImpact #ArtsEducation

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Have you gotten your artistic notebook from us yet?

Every notebook you purchase does more than hold ideas and notes, it helps invest in the education of children from financially challenged backgrounds.
Carry creativity with purpose.

Buy a notebook. Support a child’s future.

Send us a DM or comment below and we will send you images of the notebooks available.

#FacesUp #artwithapurpose

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Art that heals.
Art that empowers.
Art that educates.

This is what we Faces Up Uganda are all about.
#FacesUp

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There is something powerful about seeing a young person’s dream move from possibility to public recognition.

Today, we are celebrating Mayambala ( @Eziecomicsug ), one of the young creatives we have journeyed with over the years, who has just been featured in a two-page story in @newvisionwire newspaper, one of Uganda’s major national newspapers.

The article highlights his passion for comic books and how he is using storytelling and illustration to raise awareness about issues affecting fellow young people.

What makes this moment special is that it is not a surprise to us.

From the very first days we met Mayambala, his vision was already alive.

His curiosity, creativity, and commitment to using art as a voice were impossible to ignore. We simply created space for that spark to grow brighter.

Moments like this remind us why we do this work.

When young people are given safe spaces, mentorship, tools, and belief, they do not just create art, they create influence, opportunity, and change.

We are proud of you, Mayambala. Your story is only beginning.

When you invest through a donation or by purchasing our merchandise, you become part of stories like Mayambala’s.

Your support helps us continue creating platforms, opportunities, and safe spaces for many more young people to grow, express themselves, and be seen.

See the link https://t.co/k3ZVTkNlzF to invest and help us keep these platforms alive and impactful.

#FacesUp #ArtForChange #youthmentorship

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Some conversations don't need a formal agenda.

They just need the right people in the right room.

A few days back, we welcomed Isabela Queireza Gomes from Peace of Mind Foundation and Sara Juko from @Tutapona to our community art centre, (the Theatre of Dreams).

We talked about what we've both seen in the field:

What happens when young people in underserved communities are given structured, safe creative spaces.

How arts-based approaches reduce the gap between need and access in psychosocial support.

What integration between organisations can look like when the mission is genuinely shared.

These aren't theoretical conversations for us.

Over the past decade, we've watched children and young people walk into sessions carrying weight they couldn't name, and leave with something they could.

Not because art is magic.

Because expression, when it's safe and consistent, does something transformative.

It meets young people where they are.

We're grateful for organisations like Peace of Mind Foundation and Tutapona, who are asking the same hard questions and building toward answers.

What excites us most is the possibility.

When organisations working in psychosocial support, arts education, and community wellbeing find genuine alignment, the young people we serve stop falling through the gaps between us.

They get held by a stronger net.

If you're working at the intersection of arts, mental health, and community, we'd love to hear from you. Send us an email at [email protected]

The more of us pulling in the same direction, the further this goes.

#FacesUp #ArtsEducation #ArtbasedMHPSS

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@Tutapona @kalulemma @n_kamanyire @CleverNinsiima @AlenzyArtss @Aksantiart @ntemid More photos:

#FacesUp #ArtsEducation #ArtbasedMHPSS @mirembe_crystyn

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School fees is one of the quietest reasons children drop out.

A child gets sent home for a day.
A day becomes a week.
A week becomes a term.

A term becomes the year they never came back.
This shouldn't be how a child's education ends.

So we built a different loop:

Art session → original painting → adapted into a notebook, tote, or t-shirt → sold through @SFacesup → 70% pays school fees → 30% sustains the next session.

The same child who painted plus their peers stay in class.

Learning. Thriving. Painting again next week.
We share this not as the only answer, but as one answer.

What creative ways have you seen people raise school fees for children?

Drop them in the comments. We're listening.

#FacesUp #FacesUpStore #accesstoeducation

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The headlines are loud. Flooding. Waste. Climate pressure.

But are we helping children understand their role in it?

@Eziecomicsug (Mayambala), an emerging illustrator is doing exactly that.
Mayambala just launched “Banange” a digital comic series that helps children make sense of why their city floods.

Not through lectures.
Through stories they can see themselves in.
Pictures. Reality. Everyday!

He breaks it down simply:
• How single-use plastics when wrongly disposed of, block drainage
• How blocked drainage systems turn rain into floods
• What everyday simple actions can change the outcome.

In his words:
“When floods happen, people are quick to point fingers, yet they also have a part they might have played.”
Five years ago, Mayambala was a passionate youngster we identified through an art contest we held in 2020.
Learning. Exploring. Finding his voice.
Today, he’s doing something different:
He’s teaching.

Using the same creative tools he has honed through our program over time,
but now shaped by experience, awareness, and responsibility. He is using them to teach others.

This is what THRIVE looks like at Faces Up Uganda.
Not a one-time intervention.
Not a moment of support.

A long arc of:
Skill → Voice → Contribution

Because when young people are given:
• Safe creative spaces
• Consistent mentorship
• Time to grow
They don’t just heal.
They build, lead, and teach.

📷 Save this to follow "Banange" as it unfolds.

📷 Follow @Eziecomicsug to see where Mayambala’s journey goes next and he is a true definition of consistency and passion.

#FacesUp #educativecomics #Banange

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#FacesUp #educativecomics #Banange

@Eziecomicsug

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We’ll create something your guests remember, and a child never forgets.

Send us an email today and we will shortly get in touch.

📩 [email protected] or simply click here: https://t.co/vbjRp0nCZQ

#FacesUp #artinspiredmerchandise #corporategifts

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Most corporate gifts get used once, then forgotten in a drawer.

What if yours funded a child’s education every time someone reached for a pen?

We design custom notebooks for conscious brands, organisations, and individuals, featuring original artwork by children in our programs.

Here’s how it works:
• You share your brand
• We curate artwork that fits your story
• We design notebooks built to be kept, not discarded

The model behind it:
70% funds school fees for a child in our programs.
30% sustains free art classes for the next group of young creatives.

This isn’t branded merch.

It’s a notebook your team, clients, and guests will carry and cherish, that quietly authors a child’s future.

Request a quote today.

We’ll create something your guests remember, and a child never forgets.

Send us an email today and we will shortly get in touch.

📩 [email protected] or simply click here: https://t.co/6oV0gXEIdg

#FacesUp #artinspiredmerchandise #corporategifts

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Come for the fun, the games and the vibes, but make sure you pass by the Faces Up Store stall and shop with purpose

📷 @7Hillskampala , Kololo
📷 Saturday, 9th May
📷 10AM – 3PM
We can’t wait to see you there!

#FacesUpStore #ShopWithPurpose #SupportLocalUG #InclusiveEducation

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We’re excited to be showcasing at the Family Fun & Art Day, bringing you some of our favorite pieces thoughtfully made, creative and rooted in purpose, on the 9th of May 2026.

#FacesUpStore #ShopWithPurpose #SupportLocalUG #InclusiveEducation #FamilyFunDay

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At Faces Up Store, everything we share is about expression, empowerment and community. So when you stop by our stall, you’re not just shopping ,you’re connecting with a story and supporting something meaningful.

#FacesUpStore #ShopWithPurpose #SupportLocalUG #InclusiveEducation

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Photo taken by @AlenzyArtss 10 days ago, this is the group photo of us @facesupuganda meeting up with our guests Virgile, Wangari and Divine from @SegalFoundation ! 😁

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This was yesterday @facesupuganda , as I managed to sneak up on @AlenzyArtss recording a video of @kalulemma taking @jhecklinger (co-CEO) @Global4Children around our Theatre of Dreams. 😁😁

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We had the pleasure of hosting @jhecklinger the co-CEO of @Global4Children during his first visit to Uganda.

Our conversation explored what it takes to build and sustain impact in a shifting funding landscape, looking at alternative funding models, intentional approaches to impact measurement and documentation, and how to design teams that endure beyond the founder.

We also reflected on the realities founders and CEOs navigate, their context, pressures, and the lifelines that sustain both them and their work.

This visit was not only an opportunity to share, in person, the impact that Global Fund for Children continues to support, it was also an official welcome to Uganda and a meaningful moment to connect with a partner GFC has supported since last year.

We deeply appreciate the partnership and look forward to continued learning, collaboration, and building impact together.

#FacesUp #PartnershipsForImpact

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Part 1 of 3:

He didn’t arrive with connections.
He arrived with a brush, a dream, and determination.

From the settlement in Nakivale to the streets of Kampala, @Aksantiart carried one thing with him, his art.

Not polished. Not perfect.
But honest. Bold. Unapologetic.

This is where his story begins.
Not from comfort… but from conviction.

#FacesUp

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Part 2 of 3:

On this #WorldArtDay, @Aksantiart demonstrates what art can achieve.

Then something changed.

Aksanti didn't just find a space; he found direction.

Through #FacesUp, his art shifted from survival to possibility.

A place to create.
A place to be seen.

A place to grow into the artist he knew he could become.

This is what happens when talent meets opportunity.

[#FacesUp @FacesUpUganda]

Part 3 of 3:

Today, @Aksantiart is not waiting to be discovered.
He is building a life through his art. Selling. Exhibiting. Creating consistently.

Not just to survive, but to thrive. And this is why we do what we do. Because when a young person heals, learns, and earns, they don’t just change their story… they redefine what’s possible.

#facesup