Community Projects
CHOC Childhood Cancer Foundation
Our Vision
CHOC Childhood Cancer Foundation contributes to the wellbeing of children with cancer and related life-threatening blood disorders, and their families.
Our Objectives
Childhood cancer and related life-threatening blood disorders place enormous strains upon the family and can cause financial hardship. Travelling from home to attend these clinics for treatment add another dimensions of practical and emotional difficulty to an already overwhelming situation.
We aim to alleviate as much distress as possible through various care programmes. The assistance for families aims to:
- Provide a wide range of support for children and young people with cancer, and their families
- Provide information, and items of immediate practical use, to all newly diagnosed families.
- Organise support groups to assist families to cope with the stress that the diagnosis brings
- Provide accommodation close to the treatment centres for families from out-of-town, and assistance with transport costs where necessary.
To ensure good specialist treatment facilities, we aim to:
- Work in close liaison with the medical staff to ensure that the medical and physical facilities in the centres are of a high standard, and that the units provide a warm, child friendly environment.
- Support health professionals working in the field of Paediatric Oncology to maintain and improve their levels of expertise in the specialised field.
- Advocate for those whose lives are affected by childhood cancer, particularly to ensure equity of treatment for all children.
- Support research into studies investigating the causes and treatment of childhood cancer.
CHOC assists in the circulation of the awareness of the “Warning Signs” so that early diagnoses can be made and save precious lives.
Our Involvement with NJAF
The NJAF is a good platform to bring the general public face to face with “Keeping more than hope alive”. The word cancer scares people and they walk circles around, avoiding, believing this will keeping this dreaded decease away. There is no parent that ever wants to even imagine their child in this situation.
CHOC is about “Keeping more than hope alive” and sending a message that the more we are educated on the subject the greater the hope of survival is for our precious children.
Art festivals are about having fun, ideas, viewpoints, informing, and a platform to reach out to the general public. CHOC has a message; “Keeping more than hope alive” children live in the moment, there is always hope.
CHOC wants to create a greater sense of awareness, as most people believe that children don’t get cancer. This can be done in a fun informative way.
Items that we aim to use at our stand:
- Visual awareness with Banners, pamphlets, CHOC Cow and so on.
Items that will assist in collecting funds
- CHOC Environmentally friendly helium balloons
- CHOC bangles
- CHOC T-Shirts
- CHOC collection tins
- CHOC pins
- CHOC Sponsor board where you can get your name/logo added
The road to recovery takes great courage and the support of parents, friends and communities.
The Down Syndrome Association of Pretoria would like to Welcome everyone.
The Down Syndrome Association is proud to be part of The Standard Bank Jacaranda National Arts Festival, and to be one of their beneficiaries. We provide the following services in the Pretoria area:
Die Downsindroom Vereniging is deurgaans betrokke in die kind se lewe. Vandat die baba gebore word, word daar inligting oor Downsindroom aan die ouers gegee (spraak-, arbeids- en fisioterapie). Hoe vroeër die kindjie terapie ontvang, hoe beter sy ontwikkeling. Ons het ook
3 uitreike waar ons die terapie gratis voorsien aan ons ouers wat dit nie kan bekostig nie. Sodra die kindjie skoolgaande ouderdom bereik, word die kind in ‘n hoofstroom skool geplaas. Onderwysers word opgelei om die kurrikulum aan te pas, om hierdie leerder te akkomodeer en in die klas in te sluit. Na skool, word die jong volwassene in die ope arbeidsmark opgeneem. Verdere opleiding in die spesifieke veld word by die werksplek gedoen. 
Die downsindroom Vereniging streef daarna om elke persoon Met Downsindroom so onafhanklik as moontlik te maak sodat Hy steeds met hulp kan funksioneer wanneer sy ouers tot sterwe kom.
Although we focus on individuals with Down Syndrome, we also provide services to all 
intellectually impaired individuals. Our main goal is to make every individual as independent as possible. To live semi-independently this young person needs to be able to work in the open labour market. In order for him/her to achieve this, he/she needs to receive all intervention programmes that will facilitate successful inclusion into society. The Down Syndrome Association of Pretoria is dedicated to improve the quality of life of all infants, children and adults with Down syndrome, by promoting the idea of inclusion and that they have the right to live with independence, dignity and security as valued adults and to contribute to the economic growth of their communities.
ONTMOET HELP SENIORS – DIE KAMPIOENE VIR SUKSESVOLLE VEROUDERING!
Duisende Ouer Pesone is grootliks aan hulself oorgelewer om te oorleef. Baie is in nood omdat hulle bronne voortydig opgeraak het. Vir die meeste Ouer Persone is dit ondenkbaar om hulp van hul kinders te vra, daar is min hulp van die regering en welsynsorganisasies worstel finansieel om die mas op te kom
Help Seniors is ‘n nie-winsgewende organisasie wat gestig is om Suksesvolle Veroudering te bevorder deur aan Ouer Persone geleenthede te bied om vir so lank as moontlik onafhanklik, diensbaar en met waardigheid in hul eie gemeenskappe te woon.
Hoe doen ons dit?
Met die hulp van donateurs, fondswerwingsaksie, vrywilligers en dienste vennote:
- Voorsien ons in die basiese behoeftes van minderbevoorregte ouer persone, soos veilige en bekostigbare behuising, maaltye, beskerming teen mishandeling, uitbuiting en verwaarlosing, toegang tot mediese dienste, en geleenthede om te werk en geld te verdien.
- Bemagtig ons ouer persone deur middel van onafhanklikheid, kennnis en herontdekking van hulle eie waarde.
- Verskaf ons relevante inligting en doen konsultasies sodat ouer persone beter besluite kan neem.
- Bied ons leefstyl oriënteringsprogramme met die klem op Aktiewe Veroudering, aan.
- Bemiddel ons die regte van ouer persone met beleidmakers en besluitnemers.
- Bevorder ons deurentyd ‘n positiewe beeld van ouer persone.
Fondswerwingsgeleentheid:
Gholfdag: 13 Mei 2010, Waterkloof Gholfklub