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HospiceWits provides care and support for people with life-threatening and terminal illnesses, in both Soweto and Johannesburg.  
We use a holistic, interdisciplinary team approach and provide Palliative care for people in need. Home-based care forms the basis of our care work, however, we also have an In-Patient Unit in Houghton, should patients need to be admitted for pain management or respite care. 
Due to the massive impact life-threatening illnesses such as cancer, heart & organ failure, HIV/AIDS and many others, have on our society, hospitals and health clinics do not have the Palliative care capacity and experience to deal with the growing numbers of patients requiring this special care for life-threatening illnesses. This is where we step in. 
Our interdisciplinary teams comprise doctors, professional nurses, social workers, spiritual and other counsellors, and volunteers. 
Palliative care (as opposed to curative care) is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients on the journey of life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering, the early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems - physical, psychosocial and spiritual. 


Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, 2198, South Africa

We provide emotional wellness services to individuals and couples or family clients. We offer the service to individuals from 14 years and older by providing a range of free mental health services.

providing a range of free mental health services.

individuals and couples as from 14 years and older

2 The Avenue, Orchards, Johannesburg, 2192, South Africa

Reach For a Dream Foundation was established in 1988. The Foundation’s core purpose is “fulfilling the dreams of children of any race, color between the ages of 3 and 18 faced with a life-threatening illnesses.” The vision is to grow the Foundation to enable it to continue to give  hope to children fighting life illnesses regardless of the complexity or the simplicity of the dream. The foundation believes that fulfilling dreams and creating wonderful experience individually or in groups, plays a vital important role in the children’s coping mechanism and hopefully recovery process. 
The foundation sustainability is centered around the programmes that are funded solely by corporate and individual donations. With the founding the foundation gives hope to all children and make their dreams come true, through our national projects. For three decades the foundation has positively touched a consecutive estimate of over 3million lives. 
We are proud to advise that 91.01 % of the foundation’s beneficiaries are from previously disadvantaged background and are African. The Foundation has been certified with a 100% BB-BEE Socio-Economic Development rating.

fulfilling their dreams and inspiring hope.

children aged 3 - 18 fighting life-threatening illness

2 Fricker Rd, Illovo, Johannesburg, 2196, South Africa

BHCC is a South African hospital and clinic based NGO founded in 1954. Our aim is to provide for the basic needs of patients lacking family support, to preserve dignity, maintain hygiene and speed up recovery times. We assist with nutrition for immune-compromised and severely malnourished outpatients (particularly HIV, TB and Cancer patients) and strive to maintain patient adherence to chronic treatment plans through our Bread for Life Initiative. We distribute toiletries, clothing, therapy aids, baby goods and blankets through our Hospital Necessity Programme. Our Transport Grants extend transport refunds to those without funds to attend clinic appointments and hospital checkups. We are an all volunteer charity working closely with social workers, therapists and medical staff and rely solely on donations to continue our monthly outreach.

providing food, toiletries, therapy aids, clothes

state hospital and clinic patients in Johannesburg

CANSA offers a unique integrated service to the public and to all people affected by cancer. CANSA is a leading role-player in cancer research and the scientific findings and knowledge gained from our research are used to realign our health programmes, as well as strengthen our watchdog role to the greater benefit of the public. Our health programmes comprise health and education campaigns; CANSA Care Centres that offer a wide range of care and support services to those affected by cancer; stoma and other clinical support; medical equipment hire, as well as a toll-free line to offer information and support. We offer a Tele Counselling service in seven languages free of charge. We also supply patient care and support in the form of CANSA Care Homes in the main metropolitan areas for out-of-town cancer patients and CANSA-TLC lodging for parents and guardians of children undergoing cancer treatment.

Visit www.cansa.org.za or contact the nearest CANSA Care Centre https://cansa.org.za/cansa-care-centres-contact-details/, call CANSA toll-free 0800 22 66 22 or email: info@cansa.org.za.  CANSA offers multi-lingual support on WhatsApp: 0721979305 for English and Afrikaans and 0718673530 for Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho and Siswati.  Follow CANSA on Twitter: @CANSA, join CANSA on Facebook: CANSA The Cancer Association of South Africa, follow CANSA on Instagram: @cancerassociationofsouthafrica and on LinkedIn.

offering a service of research, education and support

Bedfordview, Germiston, 2007, South Africa

CHOC is made up of caring, committed and passionate people who stand up for and support the well-being of children and teenagers diagnosed with cancer or life threatening blood disorders and their families. 

Our vision is to keep more than hope alive for the children and their families.  This is done through a number of initiatives that make the cancer journey a little easier for the families.


1.	Provision of Accommodation
CHOC has 13 accommodation facilities throughout the country where children and their parent/caregiver can find comfort in knowing that they have a safe place to sleep, are able to attend treatment sessions and have access to nutritious meals.

2.	Transport funds 
Families are issued with transport funds to ensure that they are able to bring their child to treatment and follow-up visits at the paediatric oncology units.

3.	Psychosocial Support 
The CHOC social workers/counsellors and social auxiliary workers fulfil an extremely important role in the paediatric oncology multi-disciplinary team.  Through their skills and expertise – counselling and psychosocial support – they bring much needed support to children, parents and family members, as well as support and alleviate pressure on the medical and nursing staff.  They function on the ward floor and walk the path with the families from the time of diagnosis until the end of treatment or end-of-life.

4.	Practical Support
A cancer diagnosis can place enormous financial pressures on a family.  In many instances one caregiver has to give up their employment to be with the child during the treatment and recovery phase.  The majority of the families we work with come from extremely impoverished areas.  In order to relieve the financial burden from these families CHOC provides the following practical support:
•	Carebags filled with toiletries to newly diagnosed patients.  These are topped up where we can during the year.  
•	Bereavement funds to the value of R500 are given to every family on the death of their child.  This is just a small token to assist the family through this difficult time
•	Nutritional support is offered in the form of food parcels.  The food parcels are given to families through the CHOC social workers based at the paediatric oncology wards.

CHOC has a national office in Johannesburg with regional offices in:  

•	Gauteng South
•	Northern Region (Pretoria, Limpopo and Mpumalanga)
•	KwaZulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg and Durban)
•	Western Cape 
•	Eastern Cape (Port Elizabeth and East London)
•	Free State

children, teenagers and families affected by cancer

Smile Foundation is passionately committed to making a difference in the lives of South African children living with treatable facial conditions such as facial paralysis, cleft lip, cleft palate, ear and nose conditions, craniofacial abnormalities and burn wounds. 
We are a non-profit organisation that brings people together to provide expert surgical intervention and pre and post-operative care for the beneficiaries. 
We transform the lives of children affected by facial abnormalities and severe burns through the best possible surgical and psychological care.

assisting with Facial Reconstructive surgery

Edenvale Care Centre Hospice, which is situated in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng is the only Government Hospice in the Ekurhuleni district. We are a registered non-profit organization committed to serving our community by providing physical, psychological and social care that arises from any terminal illness including Cancer, TB and HIV/AIDS. We achieve this by providing physical care for those patients in terminal stages of their disease. We also provide counselling services to people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, their family and friends.

Our 13-bed ward became operational in 2004, and, since our inception has provided palliative care to patients in excess of 1 400 to date, some of whom have recovered sufficiently, able to return home and places of employment. 

Patients are referred from hospitals and clinics in surrounding areas including the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Edenvale Hospital, Tembisa Hospital, Helen Joseph Hospital, Alexandra Clinic and many home-based care centres in the area. 

In order to provide this care, Edenvale Care Centre Hospice requires funding to assist those in need of care and support services. We do receive a small grant from the Department of Health but it does not meet the requirements needed to provide expert palliative care. Your support towards our services provided would be so greatly appreciated.

PinkDrive has five principal interventions implemented through two flagship programs - PinkDrive® and More Balls Than Most®. These are channeled through mobile point-of-contact service delivered by skilled certificated medical/nursing practitioners.

•	Clinical Breast Exams: A mass screening service provided to women and men of all ages. This service includes one-on-one cancer education focusing on self-examinations as well as clinical breast examinations.
•	Mammograms: A select screening service primarily provided for women over the age of 40 - unless they are referred for a mammogram by a Doctor.
•	Pap Smears: Cervical Cancer Screening.
•	Prostate Specific Antigen Test (PSA): These tests are a form of rapid testing for men above the age of 40. PSA tests are administered by testing an adequate blood sample taken from a subject.
•	Prostate and Testicular Cancer Awareness and Education: At all activations, More Balls Than Most sets up information booths and distributes information flyers to educate the public about Prostate and Testicular Cancer.

providing free mammograms, papsmears and PSA's.

21 Bond St, Ferndale, Randburg, 2194, South Africa

Witkoppen Clinic, now in its 75th year, is the only clinic in the City of Johannesburg (CoJ) that offers one-stop, holistic patient-centric medical care including comprehensive social services to address the social determinants of health. Witkoppen is unique in our approach to healthcare as we focus on supporting the patient with programmes that will truly benefit the patient. Located in the north of Johannesburg (with a catchment area of 1.4 million inhabitants); there is no district hospital in the region with the closest referral hospital being Charlotte Maxeke Hospital which is 40 km away. 

The organisation is a registered Non-Profit Company (NPC) with a Section 18A tax exemption status. Witkoppen is also an exempted micro enterprise level 1 broad-based black economic empowerment contributor (B-BBEE Level 1) with a certified beneficiary base of more than 99% black beneficiaries. Witkoppen has been a trusted partner of the Gauteng Department of Health (GDoH) for more than 25 years.

Witkoppen Clinic responds to the needs of the community by providing acute, curative and chronic disease management services, COVID-19 screening and testing, ante and post-natal care and immunization, family planning, mental health services, poverty alleviation with food distribution, statutory crisis intervention to protect children, and an in-house pharmacy. Community interventions include an orphan and vulnerable children programme with a food garden demonstration/education programme.

Our Vision
To be the best primary healthcare (preventative and curative) and social service provider in South Africa that researches, innovates and responds to evidence-based best practice. 

Our Mission
We exist to provide excellent, patient-centric primary healthcare and social services in response to the needs of our community, especially those without medical insurance. We leverage our influence beyond service delivery – to improve healthcare across South Africa.

providing comprehensive, primary health and social care

promote healthcare and welfare in the community

Mashula, a thirty-nine-year-old woman that received treatment, had experienced a year of dental pain and travelled over an hour to reach the mobile dental truck. If city-dwellers go a month with dental pain, many will say they have left it too long. Each of the twenty-one patients that were treated have a long story of pain, but now they each carry a testimony of relief. Without Flying for Life and our partners, Mashula would have never been helped.

Flying for life is a registered Section 18A Public Benefit Organization (930038143 PBO) that is committed to sustainably uplifting poor isolated communities in South Africa. We identify needs in these forgotten areas, beyond the reach of reliable roads, using aviation to bring them the help they need. We currently focus on the Vhembe district in the Northern part of Limpopo. We hope to expand our already established programs to new areas in 2020.
Over time isolated communities in South Africa have become more and more isolated and more removed from society. We have found that because of this, distribution of resources has become more exclusive as well, leading to a lack of basic needs, such as healthcare and education.    Just like Mashula, there are hundreds of people who can receive the help they deserve because of Flying for Life.

WHY WE FLY
It could take 1 car up to 7 hours to reach the communities in Vhembe, whereas a flight takes only 1 hour. This means that our volunteer doctors can see more patients in 1 day and we are able to make a greater impact with every outreach.

RISKS
Some of the risks we face, are weather conditions that can curb planned outreaches, costs of medical and educational resources, lack of funding for flights, undependable partnerships with individual specialist volunteers and there may be initial resistance from the communities and even government departments that we serve.We have addressed, and continue to address, each of these challenges in a sustainable way, in order to build trust and continuity within the community. We would be willing to share these strategies with you if you require.

SOLUTIONS
At Flying for Life, we assess the needs of the community and partner with a variety of volunteer specialists. With each project we have six flights per year where our specialists can address these needs.

Below is a list of our current projects:
DENTAL CLINIC: We identified the need to fly in dentists on a monthly basis to assist with emergency extractions as well as general oral hygiene campaigns for the children in the community. 2019 Report: 107 people impacted, 4 volunteers, 7 new dentists.
CANCER AWARENESS AND PREVENTION: We have partnered with volunteer midwives to facilitate Pap Smears in the local Ha-Makuya Clinic. This is a very simple procedure that we believe will save many lives. 2019 Report: First campaign completed, 20 patients helped, pap smear kits funded. In rural communities many people still believe that cancer is a curse or witchcraft. We would like to educate communities around this subject and change the narrative.
DISABILITY CENTER: We have partnered with a qualified Psychologist that has an Honours Degree in Education, to understand the current needs in the center and in the community and how best to address these needs. Our hope is for this project to really grow in 2020 - 2023. 2019 report: 52 children, visits and donations, new projects pending.
EYE DOCTOR PROJECT: Ophthalmologists and general practitioners partner with us to perform 20-30 cataract removal surgeries and intraocular lense replacements on every visit, giving people the gift of sight!

We have previously received funding from:
MAF International 
MAF Australia
Different.org
Caxton Publishers and Printers
JEMAX Aviation 
MCC Aviation 

OVERVIEW
For people like Mashula our service means being able to live without pain, for others it may mean catching a serious disease before it is too late. The impact of one single flight is immense. 

At Flying for Life, we value and appreciate every single partner, investor, and volunteer! We strive to reach, teach and uplift isolated communities in a sustainable way. We believe that we can use this funding to make an impact and we ask that you to be part of our sustainable movement.

We promise to uphold our core values of accountability, sustainability and empowerment, to bring hope, help and healing. We look forward to embarking on this journey with you!

fulfilling basic needs: primary healthcare & education

bring hope, help & healing to disadvantages communities

fulfilling basic needs: primary healthacre, education

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