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In spaces fraught with collective and personal trauma, we use creative exploration to aid communities in identifying their own healing agenda, foster awareness, and scaffold transformation.
What We Do
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Expressive Arts Programming
We are committed to improving the lives of society’s most vulnerable. To achieve this goal, we partner with local communities and experts to design innovative multi-pronged train-the-trainer initiatives, that employ expressive arts-based and theatre-centred approaches. The programs are designed to be trauma-informed, and evidence-based, rooted in neuroscience, research and lived experience.
Medical Awareness and Sensitization
In partnership with leading health institutes and researchers, we design programmes that utilize creative modalities such as drama, forum theatre, music and expressive arts, as conduits for knowledge translation, increasing awareness, medical adherence and disclosure rates, as well as challenge stigma and misinformation. Simultaneously we work with community leads and duty bearers to change behaviours and advocate for policy reform.
Creative Exploration and Fun
We are dedicated to advocating for refugees' fundamental right to access expressive spaces as a crucial element for psychosocial support and holistic healing. We Recognize the profound impact of displacement and trauma on the individual and collective and champion the need for safer inclusive environments where refugees can engage in artistic expression, play and communication. Therefore, we hold expressive art workshops, creativity clubs and support in the donation of artistic equipment.
Who We Are
CAFAR Foundation is a grass-roots non-governmental organization based in Kampala, Uganda, with the aim of enhancing the lives of vulnerable refugees and host communities. Since our inception we have developed a community of expressive art and drama therapists, physicians, theatre for development experts, creatives and youth engagement specialists, who collectively aim to foster expressive spaces where the power of creativity can be harnessed to improve the psychosocial and mental well-being of adolescent youths, bring about social change, support positive health outcomes and empower women and girls to become change makers in their own communities.
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