Art Yetu Project
Art Yetu is owned by Heritage Handcraft initiative of our local Visual Artist and Entrepreneur MUDADI SAIDI well known as GuiArt, Founder of Mudadi Saidi Arts which is a well registered business company that provides painting and printing works.
Mudadi's vision is to empower young artist through visual Art and enable them building their capacity and careers. (Access to education.) #SDGs4Education.
Art Yetu is placed around the community in purpose to enable Artist to contribute to their Industry by displaying their artworks and gain profits (access to employment.)
History
In 2019, Art Yetu program starts in kakuma refugee camp under the shade of Ethiopian library, it was not an easy work, the program had 11 students among them one female, later on the program failed due to lack of support and some of the challenges were due to students they weren't committed as well, some of them dropped out and remaining with 6 students, others were coming twice a week while our program was 5 days a week, One year later, which is 2020, art yetu program resumed it activities in kakuma refugee camp, in Burundi community at Exile Key Record with co-operation from Abdul Patient who's an awarded filmaker and music video director in kakuma refugee camp, after reopening this program we had challenge of working space was not allowing our students to draw in good shape, I brought the class back to my compound whereby we have been using at least tables to draw, after 6 months of classes we organise a graduation ceremony which was the first in kakuma refugee camp to have been organized by a local artist,
First graduation at Jitegemee Center
we invited the seniors artists from kakuma and Kalubeyei Settlement camp, also some NGOs were presented by their staff, the event took place at Jitegemee Center near Lutheran World Federation LWF Compound but before reaching this place we had first planned to take this event at Kakuma Guest House in kakuma town but the management refused because we had many people, 14 artists have been graduated in presence of their parents and relatives.
@Chriatian Baobab from BKE Creative giving a speech during our first graduation
Exhibition, during graduation ceremony, the drawings which has been drawned in the past six months of studies were exhibited and sold at lower price and the income will facilitate us to purchase materials for the next cohorts.
©Yannick Unk and Mudadi Saidi during exhibition time after graduation
