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VISION: Communities of healed people, with resilience, stability and creativity, fulfil their potential, while creating spaces
for others to do the same

MISSION: To support people’s healing, especially children’s,
from trauma through art. 

WHat we do

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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. 

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WHY

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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. 

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OUR IMPACT

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Community Art Facilitators (CAFS)

Each active Community Art Facilitator (CAF) works with at least 7 children a week, helping them to effectively process stress and heal through carefully designed art therapeutic classes.

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2019

132 Active CAFs in 55 communities serving 3,948 children

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2020

177 Active CAFs in 83 communities serving 3,868 children

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2021

220 Active CAFs in 92 communities serving 6,859 children

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2022

249 Active CAFs in 112 communities serving 10,219 children

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2023

WATCH

THIS

SPACE

Love Bugs

(one of our children's programmes)

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2021

60 children registered in the Love Bug Programme with 20 children successfully registered in formal school 

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2019

37 children registered in the Love Bug Programme with 0    children successfully registered in formal school. 

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2020

31 children registered in the Love Bug Programme with 4 children successfully registered in formal school. 

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2022

61 children registered in the Love Bug Programme with 34 children successfully registered in formal schooling for 2022.  

 

As at September 2022, a further 15 Love Bugs have been registered for formal schooling in 2023. 

WHERE WE WORK

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The CAF Movement is now present in the Western Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal Provinces in South Africa 

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Our Programmes

TRAINING

Participants broaden their artistic skills, practice developing art projects for children in need of healing, learn about the human being and its imbalances and gain an understanding of the value of creative development.

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MENTORING

Through mentoring, BAP-trained CAFs deepen their understanding of art therapeutic principles and sharpen their skills in facilitating.

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Love Bugs

Love Bugs Programme provides a safe and healing space where severely neglected children not in school have an opportunity 

to stabilise and become ready to attend formal school. 

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HEART FOR ART

Heart For Art is an afterschool programme offering children and youth art classes with a therapeutic element. 

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