Alice Nabukenya is a Visual Artist whose love to save the environment has led her to creating extra ordinary art pieces inform of craft bags and shoes.
Under her project label, Njola Impressions, she creatively and innovatively turns non decomposable industrial waste such as polythene bags, car tyres and plastic waste into bags, shoes, tables amongst the many things she makes. 
Through her venture, Nabukenya has managed to employ herself by creating these magnanimous objects. Her bags range between shs100,000 to shs250,000, the sandals shs25,000 to shs100,000 and the shoes shs150,000 to shs300,000.
“With a just a simple sketch, it takes me one day to play around with the materials and make a bag, table and sometimes two hours to make a small cross bag,” she shares.
Despite earning from producing crafts from priceless raw materials that she picks from dumping sites, she’s her own boss who doesn’t have to hunt for deals but deals from big personalities hunt for her. 
She is the artist behind the cool crafty bag that Bobi Wine adorned onto his suit on his first day to parliament. Nabukenya says that crafts have exposed her to big celebrities, politicians and tourists small as she is.
The Kyambogo student has on many occasions rejected offers to work in graphics designing companies because she believes these will lower her creative abilities. Her dream is to open up branches to train fellow youths who are passionate with such talent.
“If you have a skill, there is no excuse of being unemployed. If you have a skill, you are ready and good to go,” she advised.
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