Our Programs

Community Solution Labs organize neighborhoods, parishes, and informal settlements into citizen-led innovation hubs. Each Lab runs on a 90-day cycle: diagnose, prototype, ship.

The Station Experience — a 3-day on-the-ground community visit — activates the Lab. Listening circles map needs. Co-design sessions surface solutions. Prototypes get built and shipped within the cycle.

Outputs include micro-enterprises, infrastructure builds, public health installations, and policy briefs for duty bearers. Every cycle ends with a community-owned tool, not a report.

School Clubs transform schools into hubs for system innovation, leadership development, and SRHR (sexual and reproductive health rights) storytelling — all youth-led, all real-stakes.

Each Club is mentored by a teacher and led by student innovators who run their own listening, mapping, and prototyping cycles. The SafeChat Podcast gives them a public voice. SRHR Toolkits give them the tools to lead conversations adults often avoid.

School Clubs run across Uganda, with the IMAGI-NATION network expanding the model regionally. Graduates of School Clubs frequently move on to lead Community Solution Labs.

Shebang Trashion is BWEN's signature public storytelling program — a movement that translates climate, waste, dignity, and justice into upcycled fashion and street performance.

The annual Shebang Trashion Show is a runway gala where designs made from discarded materials confront audiences with the politics of waste, gendered shame, and ecological collapse. Workshops run year-round in schools, prisons, and Community Labs.

WUZI, our circular textile enterprise, channels the Shebang aesthetic into income-generating garments produced by community members — closing the loop from discarded-to-runway-to-livelihood.