The Children’s Hospital Trust
The Children’s Hospital Trust is a nonprofit organisation that raises funds to support the advancement of child healthcare across the Western Cape and the Continent. Working in partnership with the Western Cape Department of Health and health facilities and UCT Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Trust has invested over R1 billion towards improving public health infrastructure, training specialist paediatric health workers, and enabling the establishment of child public health programmes, both within the RCCWMH and across Western Cape district health services. Learn more
How Lives
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South Africa
The Hospital takes care of around 250 000 patients each year, most of whom come from exceptionally poor and marginalised communities. A third of our patients are younger than a year old.
Global
The Red Cross Children’s Hospital does high-level medical training both locally and internationally. Their ground-breaking research into childhood illnesses has global influence.
At the end of each year, 18-year-olds across the country excitedly leave their school careers behind them and step into their adult lives, filled with dreams, aspirations, and goals for their futures. This year, one 18-year-old girl looks on as her peers reach this milestone, which has remained just [...]
Haaroon just celebrated his sixth birthday in the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. Over the summer break, his family went to Agulhas for their annual camping trip. Everyone was having fun. Haaroon was riding his bicycle with his older brother and cousin when he accidentally went down a hi [...]
It’s early on a Saturday morning at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital (RCWMCH). The first rays of sunlight are starting to filter through the windows, lighting up a day surgery unit already bustling with activity. The air buzzes with anticipation and nervous excitement. One of the famil [...]
It’s early on a Saturday morning at Tygerberg Hospital, but four-year-old Yusrah is prepped and ready for surgery. She’s lying on her back in her hospital bed, in a hospital gown big enough for her to disappear into. She pops her head out shouting, “Peekaboo” before disappearing again in fits of gig [...]
A year ago, Solwethu’s world caved in. She was only 12 when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and the fiercest battle of her young life began. “It’s not easy on her.” Her mother, Nolunthu, sighs. Her eyes are sad, her face weary. “The first time we came here, it was very difficult because she wa [...]
“It was a Tuesday night and there was no power, so we made a fire outside to boil water. Lee-Chaan was sitting next to me on a plastic chair. I left her with her dad and went to get more water. When I got back, Lee-Chaan tried to get up and her chair tipped over.” These are the words of Shahida, two [...]
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