Erica Gibbons
Erica is a Director of Forensics at Bidvest Bank, and is also involved in the following:
- Business Against Crime with the Hillbrow Police Station and the distribution of policing resources in the Hillbrow area
- Victim Empowerment Program for the Hillbrow Police Station
- Assisting with Top Cop Awards for the Hillbrow Police Station and Support Program for SAPS
- The Fraud Liaison Committee
- The Anti Money Laundering Forum
- The Banking Council Financial Intelligence Centre Act Task Team
- SABRIC
- The Money Laundering Task Team
Erica is also a qualified Trauma Counselor and was involved in Home Based Care projects in Soweto on a volunteer basis for over 4 years before co-founding Bathabile.
Bianca Marais
Bianca runs her own corporate training company, and jointly runs Bathabile with Erica on a volunteer basis. This means that no donations or sponsorships go toward CEO or management salaries!
Bianca has been involved in poverty alleviation and Home Based Care for over 4 years, and ran the volunteer programme for one of South Africa’s largest and most loved NPOs. Her volunteer work has been profiled on Kaelo – Stories of Hope (both the TV programme and the book), as well as e.tv’s Morning Edition. She has also been a guest on the Jenny Cryws-Williams Show on 702.
Nicole van Rooyen
Nicole Van Rooyen is passionate about children and especially alleviating the current circumstances that children in South Africa are having to live in, mainly due to being affected by HIV and AIDS.
She believes that if we all just gave a little bit of our time, our money and our hearts, that we could make a HUGE difference.
Nicole has been volunteering with South African charities since 2007. She is currently studying for a BA in Communication Studies, in the hopes of becoming a humanitarian journalist. Her subjects include Criminology, Sociology, African Philosophy, Developmental Studies etc
Bianca, Erica and Nicole are all passionate poverty alleviation activists, and believe in changing the future of South Africa’s poor and marginalised, one person at a time.
