For 12 years, Diana was the public relations officer for the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. When she picked up the phone, she never knew what to expect. She could find herself talking to a desperate parent searching for help, or the public relations team of a world-famous film star. The [...]
She still has the little suitcase. It is barely bigger than a handbag, and inside it are the same tiny Beatrix Potter books that were in it when she was four years old, and some small wooden bunnies her mother tucked in beside them. It came with her on the Blue Train to Cape Town. Fifty years later, [...]
In 1976, Dr Andrew Argent walked into the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital for the first time as a fifth-year medical student. He was blown away. “It was a unique hospital with an amazing range of patients and people. The staff were remarkably attuned to teaching and had developed a whole [...]
The first thing you notice about William Baartman is his laugh. It arrives before the sentence does, warm and unhurried, filling whatever room he happens to be in. He talks with his hands, or rather with what remains of them, and somehow that becomes just another part of his expressiveness, another [...]
The Second World War had just ended. Across the country, people were thinking about how to mark what had happened, what had been lost, what might yet be built. In Cape Town, a group of men made a quiet decision. Rather than raise a statue, they would raise a hospital. Gus Ackerman was one of them. H [...]
On behalf of the Children's Hospital Trust, thank you for your generosity and for being part of the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital's remarkable 70-year legacy. [...]
Why nursing? Oh, that’s an easy one.” Even now, at 78, Penny remembers when she realised her calling. Her father, a veteran of both World Wars, was recovering from cataract surgery, confined to a hospital bed, unable to move, for six long weeks. As a young girl, Penny watched his nurse care for him [...]
This Mandela Day, The Children’s Hospital Trust is appealing to our corporate donors, new and old, to make an impact by spending their 67 minutes by visiting the children at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital. Let’s honour the great Nelson Mandela’s legacy, who believed that the true character of soc [...]
In an ideal world, home is a sanctuary of safety, protection, and understanding. Sadly, for far too many children, this is not their reality. Imagine a six-year-old entrusted to the care of an adult relative while their working mother strives to provide for the family. Instead of the anticipated war [...]
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