Our Board

Colours of a Kind NPC was founded by Christiane Wacker in 2019, as part of a vision for a social business that supports and empowers women in South Africa at every step of the process.

Christiane Wacker and Studio Production Manager, Stella le Riche, are responsible for the day-to-day running of the organisation, the training programmes and the CMT studio that provides job opportunities for our graduates.

The NPC is supported by fellow Directors Jacqui Barhouch and Jakob Schlichtig who bring years of experience in the non-profit sector and insight into the South African context to the board.

Christiane Wacker

Founder and Director
Munich / Cape Town

Hailing from Munich, Christiane Wacker is a natural-born connector. She’s lived, studied, travelled and worked all over the world and has been visiting South Africa with her family since she was young. Through Colours of a Kind non-profit company, Christiane is channelling her long-held connection to the African continent.

Much like the circular economy of the social enterprises she advises through her consultancy, this is full circle for Christiane: linking for-profit with not-for-profit; sharing her financial and social business experience; understanding the symbiotic roles of start-ups, philanthropists and investors; and combining her professional, academic and practical knowledge to create a platform for meaningful collaboration and measurable impact.

Jakob Schlichtig

Director
Cape Town / Munich

Jakob brings broad ranging experience from the non-profit sector both in South Africa and Germany.

As part of the founding team of AMANDLA, a non-profit organisation founded in 2007, he was driven by the ambition to enable positive social change while developing Safe-Hub to become one of the leading solutions in holistic youth and community development.

Under his leadership Safe-Hub has been endorsed by the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace as global best-practice model for youth development, and has won numerous international awards including the Beyond Sport Award as a best project globally for its social impact.

Jacqui Barhouch

Director
Cape Town, South Africa

With more than 20 years of experience in marketing and communications both in the UK and South Africa, Jacqui is passionate about empowering women and giving back.

She co-founded non-profit Hatch in 2016 which delivers newborn starter packs to new mothers in underserved communities. Hatch has also been able to create income for unemployed women through its toy-making project.

While working at dhk architects, she spearheaded the firm’s participation in the award winning Go for Gold education-to-employment programme, aimed at developing underprivileged youth in the construction industry.