Faces Up Mentorship Through The Creative Arts
Faces Up Mentorship Through The Creative Arts
Primary SDG:
Founder(s):
Emmanuel Ssekitoleko
Oscar Kamanyire
Current Start-up Stage:
Revenue
Venture Type:
High-Growth Venture
Milestones:
-
2016
Founded
-
2015
Prototype built and tested
-
2018
Started Working with USV
- 2017
-
2019
Created 3 new designs for vertical farms.
-
2019
Shortlisted for the Africa Prize for Engineering
-
2020
Raised $15,000+ to open a workshop and start mass-production
The Problem
Half of Uganda’s population is under 17. Perhaps as a result of the huge youthfulness, many children do not receive the time and emotional support they need to fully develop and realise their potential.
This results in young people feeling powerless and disengaged – ultimately dropping out of school, experimenting with drugs, and being depressed.
The Product
Faces Up uses classes in the creative arts to mentor children and create a safe space where they can access emotional and developmental support.
In order to reach large numbers of children, the organisations has created a curriculum of classes and trains teachers to use these in their schools.
In order to keep these teacher training affordable, Faces Up also sells products created from the designs of children in these classes.
The Impact
Faces Up believes that by nurturing the talents and building the capacity of young people, they will be more confident, creative, compassionate, and become independent thinkers. Ultimately, they will have greater self-understanding to be able to pursue their dreams and positively help their communities.
So far, classes have been held in 19 schools, with over 3320 students.
The Future
As Faces Up grows, it’s seeking to be able to train more teachers from around Uganda and especially help nurture the talents of the most creative children to be able to pursue careers in the creative industries.
The hope is that the creative mentorship curriculum can become incorporated into the Ugandan national curriculum so that all children can access the support.
Primary SDG:
Founder(s):
Emmanuel Ssekitoleko
Oscar Kamanyire
Current Start-up Stage:
Revenue
Venture Type:
High-Growth Venture
Milestones:
-
2014
Founded
-
2015
Prototype built and tested
-
2016
Started Working with USV
- 2017
-
2019
Created 3 new designs for vertical farms.
-
2019
Shortlisted for the Africa Prize for Engineering
-
2020
Raised $15,000+ to open a workshop and start mass-production
The Problem
Half of Uganda’s population is under 17. Perhaps as a result of the huge youthfulness, many children do not receive the time and emotional support they need to fully develop and realise their potential.
This results in young people feeling powerless and disengaged – ultimately dropping out of school, experimenting with drugs, and being depressed.
The Product
Faces Up uses classes in the creative arts to mentor children and create a safe space where they can access emotional and developmental support.
In order to reach large numbers of children, the organisations has created a curriculum of classes and trains teachers to use these in their schools.
In order to keep these teacher training affordable, Faces Up also sells products created from the designs of children in these classes.
The Impact
Faces Up believes that by nurturing the talents and building the capacity of young people, they will be more confident, creative, compassionate, and become independent thinkers. Ultimately, they will have greater self-understanding to be able to pursue their dreams and positively help their communities.
So far, classes have been held in 19 schools, with over 3320 students.
The Future
As Faces Up grows, it’s seeking to be able to train more teachers from around Uganda and especially help nurture the talents of the most creative children to be able to pursue careers in the creative industries.
The hope is that the creative mentorship curriculum can become incorporated into the Ugandan national curriculum so that all children can access the support.