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Taking up the Volunteer Coordinator role at @40days_40smiles this year has been such a journey sofar. Glad to have hosted our maiden #VolunteerCatchup, a chance for us to relax, shake off stress, connect, and celebrate the incredible volunteers who keep showing up. 🥳

Proud to see our delegates fully representing at @AI_EverythingKE! 🌍🚀 From powerful conversations to transformative collaborations, Africa’s digital future is being shaped by leaders ready to drive real-world impact. 🤝✨ The right partnerships start with the right conversations, and we’re in the room where it’s happening. 🔥 #AIEverythingKenya #GITEXKenya #YALIUganda #DigitalTransformation #AfricaInnovation

🚨 ‼️ .. Long post ‼️ In 2006, the Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda began with only two staff members operating from the Uganda National Theatre. At the time, culture was widely treated as secondary to development, something to celebrate occasionally, but rarely something considered central to policy, education, conservation, livelihoods, governance, or national progress. Twenty years later, that conversation has fundamentally shifted. Today, culture is increasingly recognised as a force that shapes identity, social cohesion, heritage preservation, climate resilience, education, conservation and community development. That shift did not happen accidentally. It happened because institutions like CCFU consistently challenged the idea that culture was peripheral and instead demonstrated its value as a living, everyday foundation of society. From supporting community museums and heritage education, to advocating for Indigenous Minority Groups, documenting oral histories, strengthening cultural enterprises, protecting historic sites, advancing women’s cultural rights and connecting indigenous knowledge to conservation and climate action, the work has helped preserve not only Uganda’s heritage but also the dignity, memory and identity carried within it. What stands out most is that this journey was never only about preserving the past. It was about ensuring that communities could carry their histories, knowledge systems, languages and cultural identity into the future with pride and recognition. “Two decades of safeguarding Uganda’s heritage, sustaining our past, cultivating our future” feels less like a theme and more like a reflection of the work itself. #ccfuat20