Over the last fifteen years the Rotary Club of Northcliff and Rotary Club Rushmoor in the United Kingdom have collaborated in sourcing over 20,000 used wheelchairs, shipping them to South Africa and distributing them free of charge to beneficiaries who are unable to buy a wheelchair. In partnership with the Rotary Club of Northcliff, Sešego Cares has donated over 3,000 wheelchairs over the past 3 years.
This great partnership will hopefully assist many more needy citizens in our community to become mobile. The Rotary Club of Northcliff is organising a celebratory dinner to mark the arrival of the 20 000th wheelchair. This celebration will be held on Saturday, 20 March 2010 in Rand Club.
The wheelchair project is changing the lives of disabled individuals. One of our success stories for 2010 is Seegoban Bisnath Singh.
From Kwazulu-Natal in Umkhomazi. He was transported around in a wheelbarrow for a long time. He could not afford a wheelchair. Devan Pillay (Chairman ABSA Disability Forum KZN) was contacted by Maya (concerned community member) about Seegoban Bisnath Singh's living conditions and his desire to get a wheelchair. Sešego Cares was very happy to assist with this donation.
The Witkoppen Health and Welfare Centre is a comprehensive primary health and welfare provider of essential services, which offers a service of excellence utilising best medical practises in a professional and dedicated manner to that sector of the population who are unable to afford private medical fees living within a 30 km radius of the clinic. The centre strives to ensure that those indigent communities surrounding our clinic have access to high quality comprehensive medical care facilities and in addition their social needs are addressed. The centre has limited cash flow which it uses to cater for its basic needs. Sešego Cares looked for ways to help the centre and make their daily operations easier. R10 000 and stationery give time with filing
Sešego Cares with the help of Absa Group Sourcing helped to donated proper cupboards for their administrative office to keep medical records safe. View gallery
The Walter Sisulu Paediatric Cardiac Centre for Africa (WSPCCA), situated within Netcare's Sunninghill Hospital, is a 16 bedded dedicated paediatric cardiac intensive care unit and was established in 2003 by Dr Robin Kinsley. Dr Kinsley was struck by the fact that paediatric cardiac surgery in Africa has long been a luxury available only to the privileged few, which meant that, for all intents and purposes, entire populations have been excluded from treatment for a correctable medical condition. Fewer than 30% of South African children and less than 1% of children throughout Africa benefit from these life saving operations. The rest die.
Ironically, 95% of heart defects in babies and young children can be successfully treated. The WSPCCA came into being to address this inequality and to give hope to the cardiac children in both SA and Africa at large. Sešego Cares donated R10 000 to this worthy cause, over and above which they have donated 500 toiletry bags to the centre for the parents and children. View gallery