St Bernard's Hospice, East London

If any of our listeners are relocating to the Eastern Cape, here is a worthy cause to support.

Name	Caroline Mpofu
Telephone number	0736189111
Email address	carolmpofu@gmail.com
Name of charity/cause	St Bernard's Hospice
Website of charity/cause	http://www.stbh.org.za/
Location of where you are going to help	East London, Eastern Cape
Need of charity/cause you are going to help with	PEDIATRIC PACKAGE
Describe how you are going to help	Since one of the biggest problem with children with life limiting illnesses is defaulting of treatment, I will help through having a wellness day with paediatrics, their siblings and primary caregivers on adherence to treatment and then and ask the kids to act out the importance of adherence through drama, poem , art and music.The charity staff will have to to health talks.After that, the part of the money will buy a package that has 1. alarmclock, 2.wrist alarm watch 3.cooler box, 4.pill bag 5.cooling jell, for each infected child to be able to take responsibility of their health and take their treatment in time, and for the safe keeping of their treatment.Thealarm clock ensures that the siblings in the family support the infected child in reminding them to take their treament when the time is up, as the alarm will be set daily.The wrist alarm watch, will help the child even when they are playing that the time for treatment is up and they go home to take their treatment.The pill bag, is for safe keeping of pills.The cooler box, helps since most families do not haverefridgerators hence they will make use of cooling jell, which when it is needs a refridgeratorthey can ask neigbhours for the jell to freeze up.The jell can last for days.Part of the money will be used for refreshments on the family wellness day , which will include a healthy meal, that will form part of the topics on the wellness day.
Date of when you are going to do this	12December, just after schools close, and this will be more of a christmas gift for the paediatrics.
Ages of children you will be helping	5-18years
How many children do you plan to help?	100, infected kids and their siblings and families will be part of the family day.
Do you want us to help with....	Blog about the project , Cover the project on air, Send a news team to the project , Involve a Roman's Pizza store