Welcome to Chrysalis Academy’s revamped website!

Chrysalis Academy has, since its inception in 2000, positively impacted the lives of more than 5000 graduates who have passed through our 3-month residential life skills programme. Our approach over the next few years will continue to be a holistic one – focusing on the whole person.  This means that our residential programme focuses simultaneously on the physical, emotional, mental, energetic and spiritual realms.

The Academy has over the years evolved as an institution, but we remain committed to being needs-based and working creatively with our students, families, communities and partners in the Western Cape Province. As the Academy continues to grow in excellence, we will improve what has worked in the past and build new partnerships in pursuance of more exciting, long term opportunities for our students.

Over the next two years, the Academy will be expanded to include a Music Centre, Computer Laboratory, a functioning Resource Centre for use by Chrysalis students and graduates and a Job Shop aimed at assisting graduates with meaningful work opportunities. Ultimately our programme seeks to build a new caliber of youth leader who is also committed to selfless service in his or her community.

Our vision over the next three years is to become the leading Academy for youth development in the Republic of South Africa and I wish to thank the Board of Trustees for their support, strategic guidance and overwhelming endorsement of our exciting vision. My sincere appreciation to management and staff for their commitment and hard work, all stakeholders, partners and service providers for partnering with Chrysalis and to the main sponsor of the Chrysalis Programme, the Western Cape Provincial Department of Community Safety.

Lucille Meyer
Chief Executive Officer
Chrysalis Academy