OUR WORK
One method, a clear focus.
Creative Action runs through everything we do — with our deepest work in the mental health and wellbeing of young people, and the same approach extending across the challenges displaced communities face.
GENDER & RIGHTS · CREATIVE ACTION
Women’s Rights Now
FLAGSHIP PROJECT
At Imvepi settlement, refugee women faced insecurity over the land they depend on. Through forum theatre, body mapping and community dialogue, women surfaced the causes and shaped the response — training community paralegals who now run legal clinics, and Village Savings & Loan groups that have seeded real income.
YOUTH WELLBEING · SPORT & PLAY
Game Connect
FLAGSHIP PROJECT
As the implementing partner for AVSI Foundation, CAFAR delivered a structured Sport for Psychosocial Wellbeing programme — teaching 13 vital life skills to the most vulnerable young people in the settlement, alongside Village Savings & Loan groups to strengthen them economically. Over two years, it reached a large number of refugee youth.
OUR FOCUS
Mental health & youth wellbeing
Most of our work centres here — using creativity to support the psychosocial wellbeing of young displaced people.
Storytelling, cultural reclamation and MHPSS
Myth Village
A storytelling intervention using folklore and myth to help displaced people process experience and reconnect. Through “decoupling” — telling one’s story in the third person or an imaginary story, through myth — participants explore painful memories and thematic areas safely. It culminates in an intergenerational, fire-lit community performance of spoken word, dance, song and storytelling. Still evolving through iterations with different refugee populations, it works as a living tool for cultural integration and learning.
Imaginative play & child wellbeing
Creativity Clubs
Safe, structured creative spaces for refugee children —utilising, play, expressive art, movement, dance and drama that help young people process trauma, build resilience, community, and reimagine their futures.
"Imagination is the link between the mind and heart"
THE WIDER WORK
The same method, across more challenges
Creative Action extends beyond mental health — into health, child protection and peaceful coexistence.
Health · HIV
Acting for Change
Theatre-based work to improve HIV outcomes, drive behaviour change and challenge stigma — making difficult health conversations accessible and open, linking to onsite testing and referrals
Theatre-based work to improve HIV outcomes, drive behaviour change and challenge stigma — making difficult health conversations accessible and open.
Murals for Change · World Vision
Child Protection
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