The Col’Cacchio Pizzeria Celebrity Chef Series launched at the beginning of April 2009 with the aim of raising funds for the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital’s new Operating Theatre Complex which will open in September 2009. With the help of 6 top chefs from across the country, each rolling their own masterpiece for the pizza oven, 3 months down the line and Col’Cacchio pizzeria has already raised over R 80,000.00. 

Under the guidance of pizza doyenne, Col’Cacchio Pizzeria’s Kinga Baranowska, chefs Reuben Riffel, Mike Basset, Citrum Khumalo, Rudi Liebenberg, Margot Janse and Philippe Wagenfuhrer were challenged to create something different with ingredients ranging from prawns, wasabi pesto and peanut sauce to white anchovies. Each month a different pizza is available on promotion with R 5.00 from each one sold donated towards the Hospital to purchase specialised surgical equipment.

In the final 3 months of the campaign, diners can look forward to Rudi Liebenberg, Margot Janse and Reuben Riffel’s pizzas - 3 creations from Cape Town chefs who have made their mark in the culinary world.  Visit any of the 17 Col’Cacchio pizzerias to experience the Celebrity Chef Pizza of the month and with Col’Cacchio Pizzeria support the Children’s Hospital Trust, the Fundraising Arm of the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. 

See www.colcacchio.co.za for more or contact:

Nikki Versfeld
Total Media
Account Manager
021 448 2020
nikki@totalmedia.co.za
 
Janine Laubscher
Total Media
Account Coordinator
021 448 2020
janine@totalmedia.co.za

About Col’Cacchio Pizzeria 

Invented in Italy, perfected in South Africa, the Col’Cacchio Pizzeria name has become synonymous with a range of crisp thin based pizzas and an impressive variety of freshly prepared salads and pastas. Each restaurant offers a ‘truly’ traditional Italian meal, offering choice, health, fun, passion and good quality food. Healthy menu options have been approved by the Heart and Stroke Foundation South Africa. Established in 1992, Col’Cacchio Pizzeria has no fewer than 17 branches nationwide. http://www.colcacchio.co.za/

About the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital

The Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital is the only stand alone, specialist hospital in Southern Africa dedicated entirely to children. The Hospital manages approximately 191 000 patient visits each year patients, seeing children with some of the most complex, life-threatening or life-limiting conditions. The majority of the Hospital’s patients are from the Western Cape, with cases from the rest of South Africa, Africa and in rare instances, the rest of the world. Most of the Hospital’s patients are from poor and marginalised communities and a third of the Hospital’s patients are under a year old. They are often the sickest of sick children who need highly complex interventions to recover.

The Hospital is a public tertiary and secondary level hospital managed by the Department of Health of the Provincial Government of the Western Cape (PGWC) with an operational budget of R359 million for the 2008/2009 financial year. The Children's Hospital Trust works in partnership with the Department of Health on specific projects.  

About the Children's Hospital Trust 

As the Fundraising Arm of the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, the Children’s Hospital Trust is dedicated to supporting the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in serving the children of Africa by promoting the Hospital as a centre of paediatric excellence and by raising capital for selected needs.

The Children's Hospital Trust has been assisting the Hospital since 1994 to upgrade its buildings and equipment and to develop its professional staff. The Trust guarantees its benefactors that every cent they give goes directly to the Hospital.

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