Our Team
Elize Lombard
Founder & CEO
Elize has more than 25 years experience as a registered social worker. She has extensive experience in child and youth care and family intervention services. Her passion for families has led her to start USAPHO early 2013 with a group of like minded individuals. She completed her Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in 2022 through Henley Business School. This qualification and experience of more than 10 years equipped her with invaluable management and leadership skills.
She strongly believes that the people are the organisation's biggest asset. Elize is a proud mother of 2 daughters, a son-in-law, and two grandchildren.
Abigail Osborne
Operational Manager
Abigail obtained her Honours Degree in Psychology from the University of the Western Cape and has been with USAPHO Foundation since 2014. Having grown both personally and professionally alongside the organization and adopting its core values as her own, Abigail has one child, and relishes in every opportunity to utilize the skills and tools garnered through the training in her own parenting journey, ensuring that the “proof is in the pudding”.
As the Operational Manager, Abigail has the privilege of engaging with beneficiaries, stakeholders, and donors, and is passionate about sharing the organization’s (value) strength-based framework and raising awareness around the importance and impact of healthy relationships and Positive Parenting.
Sander Kampman
Financial Administrator
Sander, usually referred to as Attie, is young and ambitious, who started at USAPHO as a volunteer. His goal is to add value to the organisation with his theoretical knowledge of finance and at the same time get the practical experience. He has proven to be hardworking and committed and got appointed as Financial administrator. He aims to not only provide the best services possible to USAPHO Foundation, but also personally grow as an individual through all the opportunities the organization provides.
Thobani Ntotho
Social Worker
Thobani Ntotho is a dedicated social worker with a strong passion for community development. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Social Work from the University of the Western Cape in 2022 and joined his current organisation as a volunteer social worker in 2024.
He is driven by a genuine desire to give back and to help create meaningful and lasting change. His approach is grounded in respect, empathy, and the belief that every person has the potential to grow.
Nicole Willemse
Social Worker
Nicole Willemse is a 24-year-old social worker, providing psychosocial support and interventions at USAPHO’s satellite office in Fisantekraal. Nicole completed her community placement internship partly at USAPHO, and immediately thereafter jumped into the fray under contract. She found her passion for social work about 6 years ago and this passion is evidenced in her daily interactions with the community of Fisantekraal, where Nicole provides much needed relief and guidance to every family member.
Nicole enjoys connecting with people from all walks of life, exploring creative ways to empower others, and spending her free time outdoors or with loved ones. She aims to continue growing as a compassionate and skilled social worker, making a lasting impact in the lives of individuals and families within her community.
Sim has attested that had she known then what she is currently facilitating in the Positive Teenage Parenting Coaching as a young parent, would have better equipped her on this journey, and being able to offer that insight and help other parents and families build healthy relationships and thrive is her passion.
Estelle De Beer
Community Development Liaison
Estelle De Beer is a veritable tour de force and known within the farming communities around Durbanville as “tannie” Estelle. With years of engagement and exposure to various people, cultures and countries, Estelle as our Community Development Liaison, has the innate ability to ingratiate herself into any group or community, speaking their language and sharing their experiences. Estelle has a passion for people, especially those of an advanced age, and encourages all to live their best lives every day, never taking a day for granted. As our contact into these communities, Estelle diligently ‘prepares the soil’ assisting with recruitment and relationship building, before USAPHO enters to ‘plant the seed’. As a foster mother to a teenaged young woman, Estelle also brings another perspective and input into the organisation’s diverse family, while still being eager to learn and grow as an individual.
Michael-Vincent Wirrer
USAPHO Overseas Ambassador
Michael-Vincent Wirrer is a senior lecturer at the University of Teacher Education St.Gallen / Switzerland. In addition to didactics for foreign languages, which also includes multilingualism and interculturality, he is also responsible for the Assistant Teachership Programme with a focus on South Africa; in this programme, future primary school teachers complete a four-week internship in township schools.
He has been connected to South Africa not only professionally but also privately through social projects since 2004. During his visits there, he was able to make valuable contacts with committed people and discover South Africa's great potential.
He would like to strengthen his charity work in South Africa in the future and actively support USAPHO and its competitive and important projects from Europe and on site.
It always seems impossible, until it is done.” - Nelson Mandela