Mariëtte Jacobs is the co-founder and managing director of Ezrah Community Training and Development NPC. Mariëtte is passionate about working with NPOs, child protection role-players and philanthropists to solve child protection challenges in South Africa. She believes that hope is a powerful story-teller and finds joy in collaboration, leadership development, capacity building and training through a trauma-informed lens. Her background as registered counselling psychologist inspired her pursuit to bring ethical service delivery to all communities., with the best interest of children paramount.