We are a community-based mental healthcare project,working mostly with people
living-homeless and experiencing marginalization.
We believe community heals.
The Green Bag Project promotes community mental health and transformation by co-creating spaces that support community connection. We co-create mental healthcare healing with people surviving homelessness (in Braamfontein) and collaborate with the broader community experiencing marginalization, to provide psycho-educative workshops, creative care, embodied activism practices and community-building events in our mission to
#LeadwithKindness.
Kindness & Community-based mental healthcare: We cultivate an atmosphere of compassion and care in all our actions and initiatives, while promoting mental health healing within the community.
Relationships & People First: We foster strong relationships within the community to enhance support and healing. We honour the inherent dignity of each person, focusing their humanity before their circumstance.
Trauma-informed, Care-Based Activism: We prioritize understanding and addressing the effects of trauma within our community by offering workshops and community events promoting mental health awareness, embodiment (mind-body connection) practices and relationship-building skills to support the sustainable well-being of the community.
Ubuntu: We embrace the philosophy of interconnectedness, recognizing that our humanity is linked to one another.
Pro-Poor & Anti-capitalist: We seek embodied ways confront systems of inequality and promote alternative methods to support marginalized communities.
We've made some good memories along the way...
