Access • Dignity-Centred Care • Systems Mapping

The TAP Care Network is a curated directory of appearance-informed dermatologists, mental health professionals, social workers, support groups, and crisis-responsive organisations across Sub-Saharan Africa.

It connects individuals living with visible differences and chronic skin conditions to professionals who understand the psychosocial impact of appearance-related stigma and discrimination.

Through this network, TAP strengthens access, accountability, and ecosystem-wide standards of care.

Digital Well-being • Confidence • Self-Acceptance

Appear+ is a digital well-being companion designed to support people experiencing appearance-related distress.

The platform offers guidance, reflective tools, and community-oriented resources that promote confidence, emotional resilience, and self-acceptance.

Education • Research • Professional Practice

APi is the learning and research arm of TAP.

APi develops training, educational resources, and evidence-informed programs that support practitioners, educators, advocates, and organisations working at the intersection of appearance, psychosocial well-being, and social justice. Its work strengthens professional capacity to address both appearance stigma and appearance-based discrimination (lookism) across institutions and communities.

APi exists to build knowledge, advance research, and professionalise appearance-positive practice across Africa.

Culture • Art • Public Engagement.

ASWALK Festival is a travelling cultural intervention model that celebrates visible differences while actively challenging appearance-based discrimination in public space. 

Through art, fashion, impact storytelling, public conversations, and creative sports activities, ASWALK repositions appearance from stigma and exclusion to dignity and shared human worth. 

Psychosocial Support • Visibility • Healing

ACE Woman is a TAP initiative supporting women living with visible differences, scars, and appearance-related trauma.

Through psychosocial support, community engagement, and storytelling, ACE Woman creates spaces where women can heal, reconnect with themselves, and reclaim visibility on their own terms.