We Built This Because Nobody Else Would

Workplace Wellness Africa exists to close the gap between what employees need and what workplaces provide — across the continent.

What We Are

Workplace Wellness Africa is a consulting and advocacy organisation. We train businesses to create the structural conditions for work-life balance — financial literacy, mental wellbeing education, policy design — and we use the revenue from that work to fund something most organisations will not touch.

"In too many workplaces, an employee who cannot sleep is given a pill. An employee who is depressed is told they are under spiritual attack. We exist to change what happens next."

Our advocacy targets three systemic failures: the misattribution of mental illness to witchcraft or demonic causes, the over-prescription of sleeping medication as a substitute for proper mental health referral, and workplace leave policies so rigid that employees cannot access therapy without a physical sick note from a clinical doctor.

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How This Works

Consulting Revenue

Organisations pay us to deliver training and audits on financial literacy, mental wellbeing, and workplace policy. This is how the mission sustains itself.

Advocacy & Reform

Revenue funds our charitable work: intervening in cases of mental health misattribution, pushing for evidence-based treatment protocols, and campaigning for humane leave policies.

Our Leadership

Teddy Waithaka

Teddy Waithaka

Founder & Lead Advocate

Teddy founded Workplace Wellness Africa to redesign the relationship between employers and the people who work for them. His focus is structural reform — changing the policies, norms, and systems that treat human wellbeing as optional.

Gertrude Wangari

Gertrude Wangari

President & Coordinator

Gertrude coordinates our consulting partnerships and community programmes. She manages the network of practitioners and organisations that deliver our training on the ground.

Our Growing Coalition

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