Streetlights Uganda
Streetlights Uganda, is a youth-led, trauma-informed nonprofit based in Kampala that uses art for creative empowerment. With a mission to use art for creative empowerment of children living and or working on the streets to unearth their full potential. Founded in 2014 from a student-led internship campaign, “Buy-a-Stone, Save-a-Life,” Streetlights-Uganda’s journey began by teaching street-children on the roadside in one neighborhood, and now reaches many Kampala slums: Bwaise, Soweto, Kibuli, Kirombe, and rural areas like Hoima and Karamoja.
Believing poverty is the root cause of homelessness, Streetlights-Uganda’s work is anchored in three pillars: creative-empowerment of children, creative-entrepreneurial skilling and strengthening of vulnerable-families, and community-engagement in child protection through outreach, advocacy and exhibitions.
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