Everything is more fun when its a friendly competition.
Our goal is to provide the help needed to move both individuals and communities into long-term sustainability, not dependence upon any outside source.
Impact Nations has Skills & Business programs that are helping people of all ages become self-sustained in nations such as Uganda, Kenya, and India.
In Uganda, our partner, Era92, operates a vocational school aimed at raising up young adults from the slums of Kampala and helping them discover their destiny.
We thought it would be fun to give our graduates the opportunity to compete for a bit of business.
Era92's Vision
The Era92 Elevate program's sole purpose is to empower youths-at-risk in Uganda through teaching skills in Design, Arts and Technology, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Sustainable Development.
By the end of this five-month program, each student will have found a client in their specific field and performed a service for them, be it designing a website, a video, screen printing or graphic designing.
The t-shirts that you voted on today were designed by those who are participated in this program and are beginning to develop their own small business.
The designer of the winning t-shirt will receive a cash prize, meanwhile all proceeds from the sale of the shirts will be reinvested in our Skills & Business programs.
One Student's Story
MEET THE DESIGNERS
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PRECIOUS AGIZO
Life as a refugee is an extremely harsh reality. Precious had been moving in and out of different countries until she finally moved to Uganda in 2009. Education is very costly as a refugee in any country and so, unable to complete her studies, she resorted to finding some work through a friend who then told her about era92. They interested her in the Elevate Program and she opted for Graphics Design class. She’s very interested in what she does and her tutor says she’s poised to be a great designer in the future. She hopes to design for big clients when she graduates from the program.
RESHIMA NAMAGEMBE
Reshima is an alumni of the Elevate Program. Growing up, she experienced a lot of financial hardships, missing school terms and for those she could attend would amount to just a few weeks and he’d be out again. Because she’s passionate about learning, she kept trying to attend school till she couldn’t no more and eventually dropped out.
Reshima is self aware. She did not want to end up like other girls who grow desperate because of their living conditions and marry young so when she learned of Elevate through social media, she quickly joined the program and signed up for the graphics class.
Since her graduation, her design skills have greatly improved, she had to join this competition. She’s passionate about growing as a designer and hopes to work for more clients in the future.
SENFUKU PAUL
Paul is a son to a mother who is a housewife and a father who is a bricklayer. He lives in Kosovo, one of the most disreputable places in Kampala, maybe the worst. For a boy like him to go to school and be educated is a bit difficult, but his parents care about that. So, he went to school until the age of 16; He was at school when he received terrible news: his father had been attacked by thugs and soon after, his mother lost her job.
With his father in the hospital and with his mother unemployed, he quit school and took up his father’s job at a construction site. .
It’s at work that he discovered the Elevate Program from his friends who were students at the time. He didn't hesitate to reach out and sign up for the Graphics Design class.
Now he is 19, his life has improved, his mother has started to work again and he hopes to design for big clients when he graduates from the program.
