Little Lions is a mental health NGO improving the psychosocial wellbeing of vulnerable children across Africa through free workshops delivered by trained local role models in under-resourced communities.

We have worked with them since 2021, drawn by their commitment to a simple but radical idea: that the people best placed to support children through mental health challenges are those who share their language, their context, and their world. Through design thinking and collective inquiry we helped them articulate and build on that foundation, and have since supported research into how technology could extend their reach by talking to the team, engaging directly with young people, and grounding those decisions in what the communities themselves are already doing.