ThembaCare Athlone is an 18 bed pediatric palliative care hospice. ThembaCare Athlone provides safe care for children suffering from HIV/AIDS or other life threatening diseases.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

March News

This month TCA was greatly encouraged when we said goodbye to one of our older boys who was reunited with his grandmother and relocated back to the Eastern Cape. When he arrived he was in the care of his step father who wasn’t coping, and no contacts for other family members were known. The social work team worked hard to find a family member and were eventually successful in finding his grandmother through the use of a radio station in the Eastern Cape. The next problem was getting granny here and the three of them (little brother too!) back to the Eastern Cape. However this turned out to be less of a problem than first thought, as the money was very quickly raised amongst supporters of TCA. So granny came and received her training on the medications and we waved good bye to a happy, but anxious, boy who was off to a new start. Well done to the TCA team for your persevering hard work and thank you to those who support us for making such success stories possible