This organisation provides creative, trauma-informed activities such as translated songs, comic strips, poetry, and spoken words to promote mental health and collective healing through music, art, and storytelling among women and girls experiencing gender-based violence.

What Others Can Learn

What makes Um Pouco d’Arte distinctive is its use of art not as decoration, but as a structured methodology for healing, voice and social change. Through creative safe spaces and comic strips rooted in real experiences, they work privately with survivors to support expression and identity rebuilding, while also using visual storytelling publicly to challenge stigma, raise awareness and shift community narratives around gender-based violence and mental health.

Partnership With Ember

Through Ember’s partnership, they have shifted from early creative activities into a more defined organisation, with clearer goals, stronger consistency and a sharper focus on women and girls who have experienced gender-based violence. Key wins included:

• Clearer organisational direction and a more focused and sustainable model 
• Expanded visibility and networks through the co-presentation with Ember at Marmalade (Skoll)