During vacation to visit my brother in law in Uganda, a east african country, i made contact with a local artist Reagan Kandole creator of ECOAction to make a project of wall painting in a marginalized community of waste pickers in the capital Kampala. We starting doing some drawing on electric post with the people of the community, because we were using water based painting markers i told them that they could paint their skin too. They started painting their harms, and i started to do some dots patterns on their faces, little by little the children of the community start to gather to have their faces painted to. It end's up being a really nice change of plan for this project.
Unfortunately the community is being intimidated. The waste pickers used to live on land near Kampala’s railway but were forced out and so they had to relocate to land on the dump site.
They have lived their for several years and ECOAction has been helping transform and improve the area since 2014, having a positive impact across the community. They had build a plastic workshop to transform the bottles, a garden to feed the community, and many others initiatives.
But now they are being displaced again as owners of the land have started fencing the land. They didn't had any dialogue with the owners and they wanted to speak with them to help find a workable solution. One week ago all the houses in the community were demolished 106 people left homeless...
I decided to share the pictures of the workshop to raised consciousness about this community and hope that they will find soon a new place to build their homes.
Reagan with a little girl of the community.
