Launching our Backabuddy Campaign

As a certified Emotional Intelligence facilitator and mental fitness coach, I believe in educating hearts to empower teachers and students to be their best selves. Through Social Emotional Learning (SEL), we plant seeds for a more caring, equitable future and for students to be academically prepared as well as socially and emotionally equipped.

For the past two years, I have partnered with the Linc Foundation, a faith-based NGO in the iLembe District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. This year, 13 teachers participated in my SEL program, using the Teaching with the Heart in Mind model by Dr. Lorea Martinez.

To deepen their impact, I aim to provide each student in their classrooms with a Feelings Journal. A Feelings Journal is a safe space for children to explore their emotions through writing, drawing, and reflecting. It helps them develop emotional literacy, self-awareness, creativity, and essential communication skills—key pillars of SEL.

For just R100, you can provide one child with:

• A Feelings Journal

• A set of pencil crayons

• A protective book cover

Your contribution will support teachers in bringing SEL to life in their classrooms and give children a meaningful tool to understand and express their emotions.

Join us in honoring Mandela’s dream of changing the world through education. Let’s make SEL accessible to every child in iLembe.

Learn more:
Linc Foundation
Eqlibrium