© Glenna Gordon

Last night's Hiphop For a Cause show, put on at the Sharing Youth Center in Kampala by Breakdance Project Uganda, was an awesome blend of hiphop, rap and breakdance created and performed to show how these arts can benefit society.

Breakdance Project Uganda was founded in February 2006 by Global Kimeeza II alum Abramz to empower street kids, formerly abducted child soldiers and other disadvantaged children throughout Uganda using hiphop and breakdance. BPU offers free breakdancing classes to these children, giving them a positive means of expressing themselves and encouraging them to become future BPU teachers.

The Hiphop For a Cause performers ranged from Lyrical G, the hiphop winner of the 2006 Pearl of Africa Music awards, to a group of children from HEALS, an afterschool program in Gulu, to kids from the Kingship Orphanage in Kampala who had been training with LA-based hiphop choreographer Jessica Dexter.

Over 100 people attended the show, all proceeds from which will go into further Breakdance Project Uganda programming.