Water

Providing underprivileged communities access to potable water.
Art

Liberating war-affected children with healing through art as therapy.
Entrepreneurship

Teaching about entrepreneurship through participation in model farming.
Education

Enriching education, connecting the classroom with the real world.
Collaborative Art

Enabling INTL collaborative art projects with artists of other nations.
Academic

Resourcing academic communities with real life experience.

Our Mission: Freedom in Creation inspires healthy sustainable community with art, water and global education. Through grassroots community development, we empower youth and women with art as therapy and entrepreneurship education, enabling them to bring vital resources to their communities. Connecting development programs with international classrooms, we enrich global education with participatory and service learning.

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University & School Curricular Enrichment: Global Village Education

As we work in solidarity with our community and partners in Uganda, we build bridges globally through education that centers on practical relationships and is informed by more than fifteen years of interdisciplinary efforts. Themes of increasing interest that we address relate to such subjects as global citizenship, sustainability, gender, human rights, and inequity. This […]
Water4Girls: Addressing The Disproportionate Burden

Water4Girls is an educational initiative designed to unite people while liberating girls in relationship to life’s most critical need, water. With a lack of voice for girls and sense of need for both local and global advocacy and education to rectify it, the Water4Girls initiative emerged to provide girls and women the opportunity to voice […]
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Host an introduction, art exhibition, and/or benefit within your community, university, school, or place of worship. FIC events rely on the creativity and generosity of the communities with whom we work. Anyone can host or facilitate an event or benefit. More here.

Enjoy our gallery section featuring images and videos of art, international collaborations, farming, and water projects.

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Making a Master’s Meaningful by Paige Ober

December 13, 2016

One year ago today I was living and working at Freedom in Creation’s Center for Sustainability. I had a room with shutters that I’d throw open in the morning when I heard the farm staff moving together to begin their chores and close tightly when the summer rains began their deluge. One year ago a […]
A Time of Renaissance

September 4, 2012

Art as therapy under trees and in a run down school once completely overtaken by a rebel group has evolved. It’s been six years. The evolution has come in proportion to grassroots community relationships. It has been defined largely by understanding the need to alleviate trauma, prioritize potable water and help revitalize and inspire a […]