🌿 Growing Hope: The Senga Community Garden 🌿

Following the success of The Senga Gallery, built at the Generation Aid Educational Centre in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, we are now planting the seeds for our next dream — The Senga Community Garden.

This garden will be a living, breathing space filled with shade and fruit trees, colourful flowers, benches, and sculptures, a peaceful place for reflection, creativity, and community. Over the next few years, it will grow alongside the gallery, offering both beauty and nourishment to those who visit and learn there.

The Senga Garden will not only provide welcome shade and food but also a sense of pride and belonging. It will be a place where art and nature meet where stories are shared, ideas blossom, and hope takes root.

Every donation will help us plant trees, build benches, and commission sculptures created by refugee artists, ensuring this garden continues to grow for years to come.

WE have built a large compost, and have started to nurture this in readiness for the planting. 🌱 Together, we can nurture creativity, community, and hope, one tree at a time.

Find out more about The Kakuma Art Project and what we have achieved so far.

History - Born from a single painting, Boat, the Kakuma Art Project has grown into a powerful movement of art, hope, and community inside Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. Co-founded by artist Tara Dominick and Congolese refugee Hubert Senga, the project provides artists, children and families with a chance to step away from the harsh realities of camp life, finding safety, healing, and purpose through creativity. Since August 2024, we’ve run art workshops for refugee artists in Kakuma Refugee Camp to allow their stories to be seen and heard. Notably, we built The Senga Gallery - a community art space at the Generation Aid Centre funded through UK art events and generous sponsorship. We have also built a fence around an orphan school in Kakuma Camp and built a big classroom and toilet facilities for them.

Our shared mission is to use creativity as a tool for survival, healing, and empowerment in displaced communities. For anyone who believes in the power of art and the strength of community, this project is living proof that together, we can make a difference.

Every donation helps fund community-led initiatives that bring hope, dignity, and opportunity to those living in incredibly tough conditions: This is what you will be supporting.

1. The Community Art garden project - We are planting fruit-bearing, shade-giving trees around the Generation Aid Educational Centre in Kakuma, and a community Art garden next to The Senga Gallery which was funded by UK donations. Creating a peaceful, nourishing space that brings the community together and fosters care, growth, and belonging

2. Therapeutic Art Workshops - Providing adult refugee artists with space, materials, and guidance to express their stories, build confidence, and support emotional wellbeing through art.

3. We have delivered 27 foodpacks to families in crisis, since the withdrawal of US Aid. Many people are starving in camp. Our funds do what we can to help during this difficult time. All our food-packs are distributed by Generation Aid.

4. We built a fence to provide a safe place for an Orphan school, built a big classroom for the older children and made a proper toilet facility. Made desks and bought chairs, built a double swing, put a floor in the nursery classroom. Bought books, skipping ropes, balls, tyres to play with. Threw a Christmas party for 80 children in Kakuma.

5. Bought piping for water to Generation Aid, and secured a water tank and fresh water to the CAPS school.

6. Held and exhibition or Refugee art work at The Vanner Gallery in Salisbury. The Power of one painting exhibition Sep 25. Created a book of the Refugees Art and stories available on amazon.

7. Ran a International Women's Day art workshop for refugee women living in Kakuma and Kalobeyei.

8. Soon to run a collaborative workshop with St Mary's Calne students and students from Schools in Kakuma. This will be lead by Portrait Artist Alastair Barford in the UK and Artist Kuachi Thomas in Kakuma.