Roots Heal
Healing as a Creative Act
Today, through CMBM-Africa, Roots collaborates with African facilitators, including its own trained leaders, to bring trauma healing across the continent, fostering resilience and transformation for communities most affected by crisis.
Healing as a Creative Act
The experiences of war, violence, and displacement in South Sudan and beyond made trauma healing not only urgent, but essential. It has since 2018 become a central part of Roots. For many women, the weight of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and chronic illness disrupted daily life and strained their ability to care for their families. Because most Roots members are mothers whose children have also been shaped by conflict and displacement, healing the mothers becomes a way of nurturing healthier, more resilient children and, in turn, stronger communities.
The reach of trauma has no borders with its effects across lines of conflict, poverty, and displacement. Roots’ work with Sudanese and Ethiopian refugees alongside South Sudanese women is a testament to this reality. Just as trauma unites people in suffering, healing too must transcend borders, offering hope and renewal wherever it is most needed.
By weaving traditional beadwork with trauma-informed care, Roots empowers women to reclaim identity, reconnect across divides, and reshape collective futures. Every bead, every creation, holds a story of lived experience, strength, transformation, and the enduring power of human connection.