In February 2010 Maughan Mariani,  Executive Director of Bavubuka and Loretta Cella, Founder of the Passion Foundation in BC will head to Kampala, Uganda to provide leadership training to 20 young women 12+. The young women will gain value life skills tools to assist them in creating a leadership project within their peer group and raising awareness in [...]

In November 2007 we were able to secure a house just outside Kampala, the capital city of Uganda and our home-base for The Bavubuka Foundation. From this house we operate after-school and weekend programs for children and youth aged 2yrs-25yrs and hold a weekly meeting for all the Bavubuka All*Starz.

The Bavubuka All*Starz Hip-Hop Project focuses on engaging the youth in various initiatives through the arts, particularly rap music and film production.  Giving youth the unique chance to openly express their views, Bavubuka All*Starz helps young people raise awareness about the issues they feel are important in their communities.  In 2008, Bavubuka All*Starz continued to [...]

Bavubuka Girls is committed to empowering, educating, and enriching the lives of girls ages 6-19 in the Kampala district of Uganda.  Promoting sisterhood and leadership, Bavubuka Girls provides girls with a forum in which they can define themselves, discover their self-worth, and determine their future.  Bavubuka Girls has created a sustainable alternative education program that [...]

The goal of this workshop is to educate the children of the Bavubuka community house in garment construction and screen printing. This program kicked off in 2008 when project director Tobin Lankford arrived in Uganda, bringing the materials, supplies and knowledge needed to create a fully functioning screen printing studio.  The youth enrolled in this [...]

Bavubuka All*Sports is founded on the belief that group sports promote cooperation, improve health, develop self-confidence and provide much-needed leisure time for disadvantaged youth. In poverty-stricken ghettos and war-torn regions, children have little access to what UNESCO calls the right to recreation.  During the first two years Bavubuka All*Sports project fundraised over 1200 pounds of [...]

The Bavubuka Textiles Program teaches Ugandan youth how to knit and sew. With over 25 students, the textiles program provides kids with a useful skill that may lead to opportunities to earn extra income. Using their creativity, Ugandan youth are able to design bags, hats, and blouses. The Bavubuka Girls Project has adopted Bavubuka Textiles [...]

Bavubuka Foundation in conjunction with  Heart in Action and Star Image Uganda realizes the close relationship between basketball, music, fashion and dance in hip-hop culture. Hence we are introducing an annual hip-hop event called “We Got Skillz” that will bring together these four areas to create a conscience and empowering experience.  The event will include [...]

This annual program, led by musician and renowned guitar technician Brian Gibney (REM, Ray Lamontagne) and partner Leah Nance, will engage participants in a two week long workshop where they will learn to play six to ten songs of their choice on acoustic guitars.  This program will conclude with a collaborative performance with The Bavubuka [...]