Lefika La Phodiso

Lefika La Phodiso is Africa’s first organisation offering community art counselling training. Aptly named, Lefika La Phodiso means the rock of holding and healing. It is just this to the many children and adults who use this safe space as part of their recovery and growth. Lefika La Phodiso’s core areas of work, namely counselling and training, happen under the same roof, allowing for a meaningful symbiosis.

Creating safe spaces for adolescent girls and and parent support groups by increasing our capacity to deliver afterschool programmes in two of our satellite sites, Tjovitjo (Orange Farm) and Snake Park (Soweto), where we are currently running one group per week each. Through this support we will increase the groups to eight groups per week (four per site) which will result in access to safe spaces, increased mental health support, better educational outcomes, increased emotional literacy and increased agency for female adolescents (10-18 years). These afterschool programmes become a movement as adolescents can advocate and support each other.