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.

Simnikiwe Mazwayi

Social Auxiliary Worker

Simnikiwe Mazwayi officially joined USAPHO Foundation in April 2022, as a Social Auxiliary Worker. Based at the Fisantekraal Satellite office. Unofficially though, Sim has been a part of the family since 2017, when she completed her internship and the practical portion of her studies at Hugenote Collage at the organization. Once a teenage mother, and now as the matriarch of a blended family consisting of four boys, Sim is a living embodiment of USAPHO’S tools in action, having to utilize the arsenal of skills shared in our Positive Parenting Coaching Program on a daily basis, and across different developmental stages and temperaments.

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.