Healing
Centring survivors first. Circles, counselling, and safe spaces where recovery is not rushed.
A survivor-centred national movement · Launched 2026
A national callfor healing.
Walk Her Story is how South Africa answers gender-based violence — with healing, storytelling, accountability, and coaction. Survivor-centred. Community-led. We’re gathering a community willing to carry this journey.
How we walk
Four practices. One movement.
Walk Her Story is built on four interlocking practices — the foundations of how we respond to gender-based violence across South Africa.
Storytelling
Survivors keep the pen. Digital storytelling returns authorship to those whose voices were silenced.
Accountability
Naming what happened. Holding families, institutions, and systems to the standard survivors deserve.
Coaction
No single organisation ends GBV. We walk with schools, sport bodies, faith communities, and partners.
What we do
Programmes rolling out nationally in 2026.
Community
Community walks
Public walks in every province — gathering the community, remembering survivors, refusing silence.
Voice
Digital storytelling
A growing archive of survivor voices — on their terms, with their words, protecting their dignity.
Prevention
School-based programmes
Age-appropriate curricula, teacher training, and safe-to-report channels in participating schools.
The launch
We launched nationally on 30 April 2026.
Walk Her Story launched at a national press conference in Johannesburg — bringing together survivors, partners, and media to set the movement in motion. The walk continues, and there is a place in it for you.
- Launched
- 30 April 2026Johannesburg
- In partnership with
- FootGolf South AfricaFlagship social-impact programme
What the launch set in motion
- The national rollout and impact strategy
- Community walks rolling out province by province
- Partnership and participation opportunities
- A growing community of people choosing to walk
Media and partner enquiries welcome at walkherstory@footprintssa.org.
Strategic partner
In partnership with FootGolf South Africa.
Walk Her Story is FGSA’s flagship social-impact programme as they prepare athletes for the 2026 FootGolf World Cup.
Your move
Pledge time, skills, or resources.Whatever you can carry.
There’s no minimum. Every pledge gets a personal follow-up. This is how a community builds a movement — together.