UMOJA FEST

Fundraiser for Kenyan Youth
Multi-Cultural Art & Music Festival
June 27th 12 -9 PM
@ Newburyport Art Association Sculpture Garden  Art, Music, Crafts,  Arts in Parking Area for Brown Sugar by the Sea, hosting our visitors all day.
Musicians Mamadou Diop & Band,
​Dancers:  Greg Coles African Dancers
 
Featuring  on sale Ceramics by Maria-Jose Garcia & Ethan Lima;  Kenyan Youth Art and Photography of Willy Somma 

Selected Photography of Willy Somma
​ at UMOJA Fest
willysomma.com

ART OF KENYAN YOUTH

We are Celebrating the Purchase of one acre of beautiful farm land
to build a Learning and Technology Center for our growing community of youth.

The spaces that we rented for our students did not meet the needs of a growing group of students. They requested quiet study rooms, a lab for computers,  and a space for younger children to sit together on chairs that fit them. We are working with Andrew Sidford Architects to design an multi-room flexible space with air and sunlight, made with local green materials.  The students have begun planting trees and a garden on the land. 
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Our community is now Rise Kenya Youth /They have a new board and Certificate of their CBO status.


CoronaVirus - Its Impact in Kenya

The COVID pandemic has interrupted the fragile progress of Kenya's economy. Many who were not desperate became so. Unemployed men hang around in villages preying on innocent girls . Children are not in school, and are losing their hard won academic gains. Women are unable to go to the markets, and to provide for their children. Small Solution's Kenyan partner Hands of Charity is providing learning for youth, food for their families, but most of all hope for their futures. 
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​Small Solutions Big Ideas is a nonprofit dedicated to empowering Kenyan youth through technology. Our mission is to provide schools in Kenya with important resources, such as laptops and tablets, which have revolutionized education in the Western World. We address community needs during school break workshops. We are based in Newburyport, MA and Bungoma, Kenya. Our Kenyan Project Leader is Bonaventure Masika serving  schools in the Bungoma region hill villages. 


​We'd like to thank our sponsors and donors:
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- Roger & Sons Funeral Home                                  - The Grog
                - The Tannery                                                           - River Walk Brewery
                - New England BioLabs                                            -Greetings by Design
             - Brown Sugar by the Sea                                          - Unity on the River

PARTNERSHIPS: 

One Planet Education Network 
          Small Solutions Inc. is a 501c3 Corporation, registered in the Commonwealth of Masschusetts. All donations are tax decuctible.

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