Our story, begins in 2019,  with a passionate community psychologist, our founder Boledi Tladi, who studied in Braamfontein (Wits). Disturbed by the collective indifference towards the struggles of those living homeless and our collective experiences of marginalization, she initiated a project designed to foster awareness and healing within the community. She went out into the streets and began asking the people about their needs. One which, turned out to be the people's desire to have a safe space to share their pains, grief, stories and to be received with compassion instead of fear and discrimination. This was the start of The Green Bag Project.

We are a grassroots, community-based mental health project dedicated to providing communal, creative, and brave healing spaces for people living homeless and for all experiencing marginalization. 

Officially founded in March of 2019, our project activities have gone from simply providing green drawstring bags filled with a month-supply of toiletries (recognising the mental healthcare of simply being able to access self-hygiene tools and the social access that can afford); to now offering trauma-informed, community-centered workshops guided by the principles of Ubuntu, embodied activism and community-based participatory action research (CBPAR).

In all our various activities, we seek to strengthen connections among individuals (and by extension, the broader community) to foster embodied resilience, social cohesion, and psycho-educative conscientization.

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