Sunday Lunch by Phathutshedzo Nembilwi honours the Kolisi Foundation - a gentle tribute to community, care, and the quiet strength of women shaping change.
On any given Sunday in South Africa, you’ll find small, familiar scenes playing out across neighbourhoods: kids laughing in the street, neighbours sharing food, someone braiding a cousin’s hair on the stoep. For artist Phathutshedzo Nembilwi, these comforting moments of ordinary life became the heart of her artwork, Sunday Lunch, created in collaboration with the Naked Difference, and in support of the Kolisi Foundation.
The piece honours two causes that the Kolisi Foundation continues to tackle head-on: gender-based violence (GBV) and food insecurity. South Africa’s GBV statistics are among the highest in the world. And it’s often women – the backbone of our communities – who absorb that trauma while still holding families and neighbourhoods together. Sunday Lunch magnifies those everyday acts of care: clothes being washed, children being looked after, food being cooked, and the quiet togetherness that keeps people going.
Phathutshedzo’s work reminds us that community creates protection, and that safe, nurturing spaces are not small things, but powerful ones. The Kolisi Foundation shares that belief. Through survivor support, anti-GBV programmes, hunger relief initiatives and community collaboration, they help restore dignity where it has been stripped away.
Sunday Lunch isn’t loud or confrontational. It is gentle, and in that gentleness, it refuses to accept a world where women must carry the weight of violence alone.
The artwork forms part of The Art of Making a Difference, a collection which tells the story of the Naked Difference and the causes it supports through a curated collection of graphic poster artworks and tote bags. Each piece celebrates the mission and impact of a different organisation.
Unlike traditional insurers, Naked charges a flat fee to cover its running costs, with the rest of the premiums going into a shared pool to pay claims. At the end of each financial year, Naked donates any surplus funds left in the claims pool to causes chosen by customers through the Naked Difference, instead of taking it as profit — ensuring that surplus funds support positive change in South African communities rather than adding to company profits.
That means every Naked customer who chose the Kolisi Foundation as their Naked Difference beneficiary helped put real support behind survivors and families who need it most.
See more artworks and read the full 2025 Naked Difference story here.
If you’re a customer, you can help us continue supporting organisations that protect, nourish and heal by choosing a cause that means the most to you right on the Naked app after you sign up.
You can also support the Kolisi Foundation by pre-ordering prints and tote bags from the Art of Making a Difference collection between 3 – 14 November 2025. It’s a beautiful way to keep the message alive, and all proceeds go to the cause.