Children hospitalised with TB may spend 6 months in hospital, sometimes a year. Without an on-site educare centre, kids under five will spend every day of those months in a cot, missing out on critical mental and physical stimulation. It is a difficult time because families are often not able to visit (due to work and family commitments, distances to travel etc.) and hospital staff are fully occupied caring for the medical needs of the children. You can help change this! TB HIV Care is asking for your support to keep our educare service at Brooklyn Chest Hospital going.

For years, TB HIV Care has employed educare teachers to provide much needed stimulation to the kids at Brooklyn Chest Hospital. However, in order to sustain the programme, we need funding to upgrade and register it.

Join us in making a difference in the lives of children with TB. Your donations will be used to equip a classroom at the Brooklyn Chest Hospital in order to establish a formal ECD centre. This is critical in developing the children’s confidence and social skills while they are hospitalised. Because children with TB deserve to learn and play.

Community Health workers face many challenges as a result of the work they do. They conduct door-to-door visits to provide a range of health services, acting as a link between the clinic and the community. Studies have documented their impact on addressing childhood illness, reproductive health services and access to TB and HIV treatment.

However funding for community health worker programmes is minimal. Despite serving at the forefront of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, screening more than 38 000 people in the Cape Metro alone, community health workers have little access to psychosocial support or training, and may even struggle with insufficient personal protective equipment (PPE). A large percentage of community health workers are female and the nature of their work, moving on foot in communities, makes them extremely vulnerable to crime and violence.

Help us change that by donating to the Care Fund. This fund will protect the community health workers who are so dedicated to protecting communities. The Care Fund will support panic buttons, PPE, training and psychosocial services for community health workers.

This campaign will assist staff members who encounter unfortunate incidents with which they need some support, such as a home that burns down.

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