An African solution to a global mental health crisis.
We train people with lived experience to become recovery coaches — then deploy them to improve treatment outcomes worldwide. Ubuntu Addiction Community Trust is a registered Public Benefit Organisation, and this is where funders, corporate CSI/CSR partners, and the public can see how that work is run and what it returns.
Three pillars. One outcome.
We take people with lived experience of addiction and transform them into credentialled recovery professionals — then measure the impact in hard numbers.
Train
The CLERO framework — College of Lived Experience Recovery. A CPD-accredited pathway that turns personal recovery into professional practice, built on the Ubuntu philosophy.
Empower
Trained LEROs — Lived Experience Recovery Organisations — deployed into communities, workplaces, and programmes, aligned with the UK Harm to Hope strategy.
Treat
The Foundation Clinic — a licensed, insurance-covered residential treatment facility in Johannesburg, using a biopsychosocial model with medical detox.
Recovery capital. The return on investment.
Every dollar, pound, or rand invested in recovery does more than change a life — it reduces the burden on criminal justice, health systems, and social services, measurably.
$4
saved on the criminal justice system for every $1 invested in recovery capital.
$3
saved on the health system for every $1 invested in recovery capital.
$7
total social return on every $1 invested — the case for funding recovery.
*Source: US Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs and Health — Facing Addiction in America, 2016.
“I am because we are.”
The Ubuntu philosophy at the heart of everything U-ACT does. Read more on our About page.
Fund the work that saves seven times what it costs.
U-ACT is a Section 18A registered Public Benefit Organisation. Donations are tax-deductible in South Africa. Corporate partnerships are B-BBEE CSI qualifying.
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