Our Projects

In partnership with Standard Chartered Bank, Uganda, Urithi wa Arts is implementing a ‘Young Creatives Empowered’ project to strengthen youth owned businesses and facilitate creation of decent work opportunities in the creative and cultural sector in Kampala. The initiative enhances the creative practice of participants, business development as well as enhancing savings mobilization, financial literacy and marketing. The project is measuring young cultural creatives reporting to have better skills in their creative crafts, business manangement and marketing, creative and cultural enterprises strengthened to realise higher profits and increase their portfolio and market reach and establishment of creative and cultural savings groups members established, trained, ensuring well-structured leadership, and effective records management for their savings.

The Artivist is a documentation of creative and cultural entrepreneurs and activists who use art for employment while catalysing social change. The documentation focuses on their work in real settings and narrations as they share their experiences in innovative ways in which the grassroots group are funding or resourcing their work, visions, autonomy, agency and agendas, and how funding and enabling organisations can support these initiatives. “The Artivist” captures the different forms of art that the creative entrepreneurs and activists use in their work of advancing the rights of young people while engaging them.