2ANNUAL 0 REPORT 11 THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL TRUST FUNDRAISING FOR THE RED CROSS WAR MEMORIAL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL AND PAEDIATRIC HEALTHCARE IN THE WESTERN CAPE www.childrenshospitaltrust.org.za Proudly sponsored by The Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital is the only specialist hospital in southern Africa dedicated entirely to the care of sick children and children’s health. The Hospital is a public tertiary and secondary level referral hospital, which also provides critical training for medical professionals, and performs research into childhood illnesses. Seriously ill patients are referred from all over Africa for medical intervention from the dedicated professionals who work tirelessly to heal and cure. A third of the patients are under one year old and sadly often spend weeks or months in their hospital beds. Since 1994, the Children’s Hospital Trust has been fundraising for this incredible Hospital, to improve facilities and provide medical professionals and nursing staff with the facilities and tools they need to save thousands of lives every year. CONTENTS THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL TRUST /04 The Children’s Hospital Trust Vision Serving the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and Paediatric Healthcare in the Western Cape A Second Chance in Life THE YEAR IN REVIEW /08 The Chairman’s Report The CEO’s Report Trust Activities in 2011 Completed Projects & Programmes Ongoing Trust Programmes Current Projects & Programmes Paediatric Healthcare Projects outside the Hospital FINANCIAL REVIEW /18 The Children’s Hospital Trust The Treasurer’s Report Statement of Financial Position Statement of Comprehensive Income Statement of Changes in Trust Funds Statement of Cash Flows Children’s Hospital Trust Assets Detailed Statement of Comprehensive Income – Operating The Children’s Hospital Foundation The Chairman’s Report Statement of Financial Position Statement of Comprehensive Income Statement of Changes in Trust Funds Statement of Cash Flows Detailed Statement of Comprehensive Income – Operating DONOR REPORT /27 Major Supporters Trust Supporters Gifts-In-Kind PARTNERING WITH ADCOCK INGRAM /33 BANK DETAILS /34 TRUST OUR TEAM IN 2012 /35 TRUST BOARD OF TRUSTEES, PATRONS, UK TRUSTEES & SUB-COMMITTEES 2011 /36 THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL TRUST THE CHILDREN’S Hospital TRUST VISION To assist the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital by funding their identified priority capital, equipment, research and training projects, while funding projects beyond the Hospital’s doors, which impact paediatric healthcare in the Western Cape. (Trustees, Patrons and UK Trustees for 2011 listed on pages 36 to 37) Serving the Red Cross 290 beds and 1000 plus dedicated staff, the Hospital celebrates the lives of thousands of War Memorial children who have been healed and sent home to Children’s Hospital and enjoy a normal childhood free of drips, hospital beds and pain. With 260 000 patient visits Paediatric Healthcare in every year, the Hospital has given millions of the Western Cape children a second chance in life. Every day in hospital is a day less of childhood. The success of the Children’s Hospital Trust in raising funds for the Red Cross War Memorial It is this belief that drives the Trust to fundraise Children’s Hospital and Paediatric Healthcare in for this great institution; an institution that strives the Western Cape rests entirely on the generosity for excellence and is committed to sharing of our donors. It is consistent, ongoing support its experience and expertise with others. The that significantly impacts our work in the Hospital Children’s Hospital Trust is funded from an and in meeting paediatric healthcare needs endowment, ensuring that 100% of all donations beyond the Hospital’s doors. received go directly to prioritised projects and programmes at the Hospital and specific The Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital paediatric healthcare projects beyond its doors. is an extraordinary Hospital for children. Not Not a cent is used for administration or operational only because it is the only remaining dedicated expenses. We never lose sight of the fact that specialist children’s hospital in the whole of without our committed and loyal supporters none southern Africa, but because since 1956 this of the work of the Trust would be possible. For unique place of healing has maintained an ethos detailed information on the Children’s Hospital of “child first,” while perfectly balancing its drive Trust and the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s for expertise with unwavering compassion. With Hospital visit www.childrenshospitaltrust.org.za 4 THE CHILDREN’S Hospital TRUST – ANNUAL report 2011 THE CHILDREN’S Hospital TRUST – ANNUAL report 2011 facilities needed to offer first-world care that is on A Second Chance a par with the Hospital’s new state-of-the-art Burns in Life Theatre and ICU facilities. This specialist Burns Unit is the only specialised burns centre treating MILANI TYEKU children under the age of 13 with burn injuries in the Western Cape. As part of the healing process the unit focuses on pain management and a Milani Tyeku is a four-year-old boy who has functional therapy programme encompassing art, been in the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s music, aromatherapy, reflexology and cultural Hospital’s Burns Unit for eight months. In June therapy. 2011, Milani and three of his little friends were the victims of a horrific fire when a paraffin heater DINAO NGOMBE fell over in their crèche. Clutching their faces in (Not her real name) their little hands, they tried to escape the flames and sustained full thickness burns to their faces In August 2011, Dinao was suffering from and hands. Milani also suffered severe smoke gastroenteritis, oral thrush and a bad cough inhalation. While Milani’s friends have since been that worried her mother, Ella. Dinao was also discharged, he has had to stay on for treatment not growing and was very weak. Dinao was because of the depth of the burn wounds on his admitted to one of the General Medical Wards head. He has lost all the skin tissue, causing his at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s skull to be exposed and prone to infection. His Hospital and diagnosed with severe sepsis and little face is so burned that he cannot completely dermatitis. Blood tests revealed that both Dinao close his eyes because, while he heals, his and Ella were in fact HIV positive – a shock to skin contracts which causes tightness. Milani is Ella who had never had an HIV test and never undergoing extensive skin grafts to replace the suspected the possibility of contracting it. Ella, skin on his skull. a young unemployed mother who relies on her family to support her in raising her baby, now Despite all the trauma and pain, Milani has found herself having to place her faith in the become a very independent little person and specialist doctors at the Hospital. Hospital staff are impressed with how well he feeds himself and plays during play therapy Both mother and baby were started on with his physiotherapists. The new upgraded Antiretrovirals (ARV’S) and there was an Burns Unit at the Hospital now has the modern immediate improvement in Dinao’s health. Dinao MILANI DINAO 5 THE CHILDREN’S Hospital TRUST – ANNUAL report 2011 THE CHILDREN’S Hospital TRUST – ANNUAL report 2011 will have to visit the Hospital regularly and will had a large cyst and fluid on his brain that had need to use ARV’s for the rest of her life, but has to be removed immediately to avoid seizures or already started picking up weight and is livelier loss of consciousness. The surgery was a success than before. While Dinao was in Hospital, Ella and Luigi could return home to enjoy a normal spent weeks sleeping in a chair next to her childhood. bedside without access to adequate facilities. In partnership with the Western Cape Government: Luigi was fortunate to have EMS ambulances on Health, the Children’s Hospital Trust has funded hand to transport him from the clinic to Oudtshoorn the first phase of upgrading the 55-year-old Hospital, and then again from George Hospital Medical Wards where Dinao’s life was saved. to the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. With four child-friendly ambulances LUIGI MAY recently equipped with paediatric equipment by the Children’s Hospital Trust, emergency staff are When Luigi May of Oudtshoorn was only five now able to get patients 24/7 to their clinical months old, his mother, Cathlene, noticed that destination in optimal condition resulting in his head seemed enlarged in comparison to improved prognosis and at times, shorter hospital his body. He had also developed sleeping and stays. eating disorders, often vomited and kept getting head fevers. The local clinic assured Cathlene NEVINA BROWN that there was no need for concern, but after Luigi became aggressive his mother knew that there Nevina Brown had been a regular patient at the was something seriously wrong. ENT Department of the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital as a result of illnesses linked When he was two years old, the resident doctor to her adenoids and tonsils. Nevina would snore performed a routine check and advised that there loudly and often stop breathing, which worried might be fluid on Luigi’s brain. He was referred to her mom Charmaine to the point where she Oudtshoorn Hospital and then to George Hospital would have to check if her daughter was still for scans, which were sent to Cape Town to be alive. Charmaine, explains that sleeping for three analysed. Luigi was immediately referred to the hours at most each night had become the norm Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital for her and as a working mother this was very in Cape Town for specialist treatment from difficult.