OUR TEAM
Beneficiaries are carefully selected and supported by directors, who jointly take responsibility to ensure that the Foundation lives up to its purpose of making a proper difference in the journey of transformation. All these directors have a heart for restoration.
Yolandi Venter
Yolandi is an executive member of the B4i Project and Managing Director of B-BBEE Specialist company B4i Consult. She is registered as a B-BBEE Professional with the Association of B-BBEE Professionals. Apart from her B-BBEE and law experience, she has a heart devoted to the upliftment of the most vulnerable and sits on the board of numerous Non-Profit Companies, where she is responsible for Corporate Governance and Fund Distribution. She has 10 years’ experience in the fight against human trafficking and has developed the R3egain Programme as part of her passion for the restoration of young women. Her vision is to expand the Foundation to not only have a national but an international footprint.
Louis McLaren
Louis is the CEO of the B4i Project and has been a B-BBEE advisor and strategist for 15 years. He obtained his master’s degree in “Strategic foresight and the development of black entrepreneurs in South Africa” from Regent University (Virginia, USA) in 2016. His thesis, that formed the basis for developing the B4i Empowerment Model, received a top academic award from the University and he was subsequently inducted into the “Who’s Who of students in the USA” in 2017. Louis founded the Foundation (initially registered as a Trust) in 2008 and with his vision and passion for upliftment has enabled the Foundation to distribute millions to disadvantaged communities, women and children.