A JIKA ULUNTU PROGRAMME
Voices of Ubuntu
From first feelings to community leadership
Research-informed, culturally rooted, arts-based programmes that help children, young people, teams and communities heal from difficult experiences, strengthen relationships and social cohesion, and build confidence to lead.
* Every paid booking helps extend free programme delivery to communities that cannot pay.
The Journey
How The Programme Grows With The Person
Four age-appropriate programmes help children and young people build emotional awareness, voice, perspective, identity and responsibility. A separate Ubuntu Mentor Training pathway equips people to carry the work into their own schools, organisations and communities.
Each programme can be commissioned on its own. The deepest value develops when people receive repeated, age-appropriate opportunities to practise these capacities over time.
One mission, two ways to participate
Paid work sustains people and quality. Sponsorship protects access. Together, they grow the ecosystem.
Commission A Programme
Schools, NPOs, government departments and workplaces can commission a Voices of Ubuntu programme for their learners, staff or communities. Paid delivery creates work for local facilitators, artists and programme teams while contributing to wider community access.
Fund Community Access
Funders, donors and CSI partners sponsor the same quality programme in schools and communities that cannot carry the full cost. Funding supports professional delivery, safeguarding, materials, documentation and follow-up.
Impact
Partners and Collaborators
Featured Story
HOW WE work
Our Approach
Ubuntu philosophy
We understand people in relationship to family, community, culture and place. Participants are treated as knowledge-holders and partners in change—not as passive recipients.
Arts-Based & Participatory Practice
Puppetry, movement, story, music, Forum Theatre and digital storytelling make difficult experiences easier to express, examine and reimagine.
Asset-based community development
We help communities recognise the strengths, relationships and local knowledge already present, then turn those assets into practical responses.
Carry the work forward
Become an Ubuntu Mentor
Designed for educators, youth workers, NPO practitioners, community leaders, frontline professionals and people committed to strengthening others.
Learn to create safe, structured spaces in your school, organisation or community. Ubuntu Mentor Training develops facilitation, safeguarding, emotional-literacy and arts-based practice through guided learning and supervised experience.
STAY INFORMED
Stories, Learning and Updates from the Field
Follow how Voices of Ubuntu is being adapted, what participants and communities are teaching us, and where the work is growing.
