

VISION: Communities of healed people, with resilience, stability and creativity, fulfil their potential, while creating spaces
for others to do the same
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MISSION: To support people’s healing, especially children’s,
from trauma through art.

Madiba Day 2025

Celebrate Madiba Day with us from 14-19 July in honouring Mandela’s legacy through art, giving & community action.
Donation drive
Help us by donating the following throughout the week at either our Art Centre in Vryground or our Art Studio in Montebello:
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Children's and Youth Books
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Colouring Books
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Art materials supplies
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School Stationery
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Aprons
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Hygiene Packs (toothpaste, soap, washcloths, etc.)
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Dry Food Donations (rice, samp, beans, peas, lentils, tinned foods, etc.)

Arts & crafts experience
Enjoy a mixed-media creative experience throughout the week for a small donation at either our Art Centre in Vryground or our Art Studio at Montebello Design Centre in Newlands.
Art centre refresh
Join our team on Madiba Day to help us refresh our Art Centre in Vryground!
Help us with our:
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Garden
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Team room floor repaint
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Pottery Kiln repair
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Apron-making Drive
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Other small maintenance tasks
Friday, 18 July 2025,
9.00-14.30
We train and mentor a movement of Community Art Facilitators (CAFs) to provide
psycho-social support through art therapeutic classes to children in under-resourced South African communities. CAF’s therapeutic art classes help children to stabilise through developing healthy coping mechanisms for processing stress and healing from trauma.

WHY

Art is a medium that enables healing and promotes creative skills that can be utilised life long. This is important in a country where trauma exists especially in under resourced communities. South African schools are in a state of multi-level crisis, exacerbated by the diminished budgets for arts in primary schools, resulting in most not having art in their curriculums. Creative development is an essential part of child development.

OUR IMPACT

Community Art Facilitators (CAFs) Programme
CAFs work with children every week in carefully designed art therapeutic classes

Love Bugs Programme
Bringing stability to severely neglected children not in school

Heart For Art Programme
Encouraging creativity and healing through art in children and youth

Project Cocoon
Supporting CAF community based initiatives



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