To tackle the prevailing issue of Gender Based Violence, The South Africanist partnered with female artists to create an elaborate, yet beautiful puzzle. These puzzles are available for purchase the homes of all South Africanists so that families could build it together and get the conversation started on this important issue in their homes.
Another project saw Jesse transforming and breathing life into Beth Uriel – a boy’s home in Salt River. To bring hope and light into the interior, Jesse got to work on the exterior. The boys loved Jesse’s ideas of bright colours and graphic art and decided to get in on the action, helping Jesse paint their new home. Jesse explains, “As a South Africanist, our success relies heavily on collaboration. This is another positive behavioural impact from the creative side playing it out”.
To share their revolutionary solutions using the using the principles of design thinking, behavioural science, and positive deviance, The South Africanist were asked to run a creative workshop in 2019. There, they met a Capitec team who listened in on their ideas. “From there, the relationship just started”, Jesse describes.