Meet Lanah

Lanah and her mother, Bronwyn, are from Blikkiesdrop in Delft. Earlier this month, while Bronwyn was still at work, she received a frantic call from her niece who was taking care of little Lanah. Her heart dropped at the realisation that her daughter had been in a hot water incident. While playing with her cousins, Lanah knocked the cupboard door and the hot boiling water fell on her, as the kettle slipped off the table. Frantically navigating through piercing screams over the cellphone and rushing to get back home, all Bronwyn wanted was to comfort and be with her little daughter. Bronwyn says: “My heart was broken; I just want her to get better and for us to go back home.”

The concerned mother immediately rushed her little one to Symphony Clinic in the Delft area, after arriving there at 2 pm and her daughter being stabilised, she waited for an ambulance to take her to the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, where her little one would be seen in the Burns Unit – the only specialised paediatric burns unit in Africa.

After arriving at the Red Cross Hospital at 7 pm, little Lanah was immediately seen and her wounds dressed, the clinicians informed her mom that she would need to spend two weeks in the Hospital. She had sustained 24 % burn wounds on her body.

On her journey to recovery, Lanah and her mom look forward to visits from their family from Delft. They are dependent on a family car that allows Bronwyn’s husband and a few other members to visit them.

The Social Work Department at Red Cross Children’s Hospital provides vulnerable patients and families, like Lanah, support with transportation funds, emergency relief items, and resources to help them heal faster and grow stronger.

100% of your donations will support vulnerable littles and their families with the much-needed support while being hospitalised far from their homes.