The Friends of the Children's Hospital Association

Thank you Annabel de Ruiter, Ariska Lardinois and Britt Verschuuren for your donation!

25.12.2019 Father Christmas visited the hospital to hand out all the gifts Focha collected over the last period of time. Because of this we hope the children had this Christmas feeling and felt special for the day. Also, the parents of the children got lunch served as a sign of warm-heartedness🎄🎁🧸

On the 17th of December, Lana Marks, the ambassador of the U.S. and the professional marines came to the hospital to handout gifts to all the children. This in theme of Christmas and the thought of helping others. Thank you so much for your visit and we would love to see you again next year.

On the 12 of December all the volunteers from FOCHA got dressed up in theme of Christmas in order to give all the children an amazing Christmas Parade. Besides the volunteers, petting zoo, fire fighters, father Christmas and other people joined to make this day unforgettable.

Last Thursday, 12 December 2019, was an important day for the Friends of the Children’s Hospital Association. The Christmas Parade is a special day for all the children who are staying in the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital.

We would like to thank ABSA Bank for the wonderful donations who gave a lot of joy to all the children!

On Friday the 6th of December, The Friends of the Children’s Hospital Association helped organizing the biggest fundraising event of the year, Fire Fighters Ball in Parow. 500 guests came over to support and celebrate a lovely evening. Thanks for your support and the wonderful evening.

The Friends of the Children's Hospital Association

Gay Lagardien
Our Acting CEO retreated into retirement this month after serving FOCHA for five years in different capacities, first as bookkeeper, then finance manager and over the last two years as CEO.
Gay is the kind of person that you meet and after five minutes feels like you know her for years. We had a great working relationship and this allowed the team to deliver quality services to our clients. She showed great leadership and tenacity to guide FOCHA through a difficult period where we had to manage our organisation without the backing of a major donor.
Thank you Gay for the opportunity to have worked with you, we will surely miss you.
Enjoy your life of leisure 🙏

From the GB, staff and volunteers at FOCHA
#thankyou

Today “THE FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION” remembers the enormous contribution our Patron Chester Williams made by influencing the lives of our patients at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. His passion and commitment to drive the FOCHA agenda, to reduce anxiety and to make their stay in hospital less traumatic, truly impacted the lives of sick children. Together with his wife Maria they visited and played with patients, did radio interviews to promote FOCHA’s work and attended events to share their passion and commitment to our vision and mission. Our movement will surely miss him and wish Maria, his family and the children well.

Matthew & Bianca Wedding gift to the Mother's

Women's Day - Matthew & Bianca got married on 9th August, their guests were asked to donate a book instead of a wedding gift, what a wonderful selfless act. Congratulations

Women's Day Celebrations with Warriors of Hope at FOCHA

Wishing all our Muslim brothers and sisters a joyous day !

Just Breathe Initiative

Thank you to each and everyone of our friends who donated toiletries for the parents of children at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital for The Just Breathe Mandela Day drive.

We were completely blown away by the amazing response and are truly grateful for all the donations we received.

Thank you to Lerato from The Friends of the Children's Hospital Association for all the hard work you and your team put in to make life easier and more comfortable for the parents of the children at the hospital.
Ten Too everyone!

Wärtsilä Corporation

Not all heroes wear capes! Some wear aprons.
As part of our CRS initiative under BBBEE in South Africa, Wärtsilä South Africa made a donation of groceries to The Friends of the Children's Hospital Association (FOCHA) who is affiliated with the Red Cross Children's Hospital.
The Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital is South Africa's only dedicated child health institution and offers a comprehensive range of specialist paediatric services to children. Children from all nine provinces of South Africa and from all over Africa are referred to the hospital by referral hospitals, clinics and smaller hospitals.
FOCHA provides proficient non-medical support to all patients and their families/caregivers. Families are cared for by the provision of hygiene and food packs, clothing and a host of educational and social events. Health and hygiene sessions, wellness sessions and the development of soft skills is also a fundamental part of the Family Support activities.

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Due to Tevin Campbell not being in the country on Mandela Day, he has pledged to spend time with the kids at the hospital, today.

None other than Mr. Tevin Campbell visiting today. ❤️

Wärtsilä Corporation

Not all heroes wear capes! Some wear aprons.
As part of our CRS initiative under BBBEE in South Africa, Wärtsilä South Africa made a donation of groceries to The Friends of the Children's Hospital Association (FOCHA) who is affiliated with the Red Cross Children's Hospital.
The Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital is South Africa's only dedicated child health institution and offers a comprehensive range of specialist paediatric services to children. Children from all nine provinces of South Africa and from all over Africa are referred to the hospital by referral hospitals, clinics and smaller hospitals.
FOCHA provides proficient non-medical support to all patients and their families/caregivers. Families are cared for by the provision of hygiene and food packs, clothing and a host of educational and social events. Health and hygiene sessions, wellness sessions and the development of soft skills is also a fundamental part of the Family Support activities.

Fluentella

#actionagainstpoverty 🥰
As the world reflects on Nelson Mandela’s legacy, we give thanks for his life, his leadership and his devotion to humanity and to humanitarian causes.
Marie Teacher spent her #67minutes with The Friends of the Children's Hospital Association and had an amazing time playing with some of the little patients. She intends to spend a lot more time volunteering at this hospital in the future. What an absolute honor it was to be able to serve others. We encourage you to do the same and get involved in your community and assist those in need. Every bit counts, whether it's Mandela Day or not ❤️ #mandela #madibaday #2019 #help #kids #children #southafrica #capetown

Grocery Drive

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Happy 80th Birthday to our LONG TIME Volunteer - Aunty Nora .......

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Thank you Matt Cigler - Pugsley & Wednesday Pets for cleaning our FFT (FOCHA fish tank) at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital

A21 South Africa

Today marks the start of #ChildProtectionWeek in South Africa. Over the next couple of days our team will be doing a number of presentations at schools in vulnerable communities.

Join us in taking action through education during #ChildProtectionWeek. Equipping children on how to stay safe and having an action plan when they are in danger.

Invite the A21 team to your school - [email protected]

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Eid Mubarak to all our Friends & Family

Donation Drive @ FOCHA - we are in need of hygiene products, previously loved clothes & items for our charity shop :) contact Rozanna on 021658-5453 or [email protected]

[05/27/19]   Father's Day Event - 13th June. If you would like to donate items to treat the Dad's of our sick children, please drop off at FOCHA before the 13th - we are looking for items like snack packs (biltong/nuts/dried fruit), packets of crisps, can or box of juice/soda, tissue packs - anything nice to spoil the incredible Dad's. Thank you :)

The warmth & kindness continues

FOCHA Yoga every Wednesday, helping Mom's of patients to relax & unwind :)

ArtLab Creative Digital Printing - Custom Wallpapers - Textile Printing

We rise by lifting others.

A beautiful message sent to us from The Friends of the Children's Hospital Association -

"Dear Management and Staff of ArtLab

Thank you so much for your wonderful donation of pretty fabric. Your gift is much appreciated and will be used to make new aprons and tablecloths. Our staff and volunteers move around the hospital providing refreshments to the families attending the clinics so new aprons and tablecloths for the trollies will be splendid! Thank you for your support and thank you for showing such kindness.

Each child deserves to be happy after the traumatic experience of hospitalisation. We, therefore rely on the support of the community to fulfil this wish.

Your donation is extremely important to us and most especially to our children at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. We need and value your continuing support. Thank you once again."

Yours sincerely

FOCHA Management

#communitycapetown #digitalprinting #fabricprinting #capetowncharities #FOCHA

Heart 2 Heart

In partnership with the The Friends of the Children's Hospital Association we hosted our Annual Mother’s Day brunch at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, inviting and honoring 60 mother’s (most of whom have been at the hospital with their children for months with no familial support as they come from outside Cape Town).

As usual our Heart2heart community pulled together and we were able to provide refreshments, gift bags, a mini pamper session for each mom and a WHOLE lot of HEART!

A huge thank you to our guest speaker Lee-Anne Van Renen and everyone else involved in making today’s event a huge success 🥰👏🏻