We train people with lived experience to become recovery coaches — then deploy them to improve treatment outcomes worldwide.
Section 18A PBO — Tax-deductible donations
Licensed clinical facility — 24-bed detox · 21-day rehab
17 years — Founded 13 November 2008
University of Zambia — Active research partnership
CPD certified — Accredited training programmes
The U-ACT model takes people with lived experience of addiction and transforms them into credentialled recovery professionals — then measures the impact in hard numbers.
The CLERO framework — College of Lived Experience Recovery. A CPD-accredited pathway that turns personal recovery into professional practice. Built on the Ubuntu philosophy and the Collins Window methodology.
London Recovery Coaching Campus →MAUNi Training App →Trained LEROs — Lived Experience Recovery Organisations — deployed into communities, workplaces, and programmes. Aligned with the UK Harm to Hope strategy and the Dame Carol Black report.
We Do Unfiltered Lives →We Do Community →The Foundation Clinic — a licensed, insurance-covered residential treatment facility in Johannesburg. Biopsychosocial model. Medical detox. Technology-enhanced outcomes.
The Foundation Clinic →Training Community →Every pound, rand, or dollar invested in recovery does more than change a life. It reduces the burden on criminal justice, health systems, and social services — measurably.
Source: US Surgeon General's Report on Alcohol, Drugs and Health — Facing Addiction in America, 2016
U-ACT is not an international organisation that works in Africa. We are an African organisation that has taken our model to the world.
"I am because we are."Ubuntu — the philosophy at the heart of everything U-ACT does
U-ACT is a Section 18A registered Public Benefit Organisation. Donations are tax-deductible in South Africa. We are B-BBEE CSI qualifying for corporate partners. All funds go directly to training, treatment, and community deployment.
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