Our Team

Janna holds a degree in Anthropology and Psychology, is a qualified yoga instructor with experience in informal education and youth facilitation. Her role is to ensure that the team works with integrity and passion in a way that is sustainable and professional, and in turn to provide our children with positive role models, high quality programmes and valuable skills for life. She believes that through deeply connecting to ‘self, other & earth’ we can co-create a world where people and the planet can thrive!

Noks has been teaching children’s yoga since she started with Earthchild Project in 2007. She is also passionate about teaching yoga to parents, school teachers, and her community. Noks aims to nurture and inspire the children with whom she works by teaching them to love and believe in themselves.

After studying a Bachelor of Social Science, Rom explored working in bookshops, the film industry, the hospitality industry, the publishing industry, and taught English in Taiwan and Peru. Her role assists the team to deliver their best selves in order to expose our Earthchild children and teachers to different ways of thinking and being. 

Before Earthchild Project, Phila was the operations manager at Project Playground in Gugulethu. She is passionate about connecting with and empowering others to transform themselves and achieve their goals. Her role at ECP is to create an environment in which the team can make a powerful impact on our kids, our communities and our world.

Liya was an Earthchild Project Programme Participant and became an ECP intern straight after finishing highschool. Liya is passionate about helping children fall in love with nature and the unfamiliar, as well as creating meaningful relationships with our children.

Anathi was a part of Earthchild Project since school and is now a passionate facilitator who takes pride in being a mentor for our children.The relationships that she builds with our Earthchildren brings her joy in her work.

Abongile studied Environmental and Water Science, and takes pride in teaching children to love the environment and understand that they are part of it. In doing so, he is encouraging them to be the agents of change, and nature champions, while also helping them to understand that your environment does not dictate your future.

Jadene has been an Earthchild Project participant since she was 10 years old and is now a full time yoga facilitator. She loves that she can give back to her community through supporting children in the same way the facilitators supported her when she was a child. She loves seeing her learners having fun and being free.