

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

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)
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.

2019
132 Active CAFs in 55 communities serving 3,948 children

2020
177 Active CAFs in 83 communities serving 3,868 children

2021
220 Active CAFs in 92 communities serving 6,859 children

2022
249 Active CAFs in 112 communities serving 10,219 children

2023
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Love Bugs
(one of our children's programmes)

2021
60 children registered in the Love Bug Programme with 20 children successfully registered in formal school

2019
37 children registered in the Love Bug Programme with 0 children successfully registered in formal school.

2020
31 children registered in the Love Bug Programme with 4 children successfully registered in formal school.

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

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






Our Programmes


