Community support keeps doors of Edenvale Care Centre open
“Although we have battled it out, we are getting there. We have to remain positive that 2024 will be a better year.”
Edenvale Care Centre Hospice thanked the community for the continued support and kindness shown to it in recent months.
Centre manager Marlene Hooper said the care centre recently received a life-changing donation from an anonymous donor.
“Although I cannot go into too much detail, this donation will keep our costs down and help with the day-to-day running of the centre,” said Marlene.
She also thanked Marc de Sousa of Build It for a recent donation of R40 000 from their golf day as well as a new bathtub which will be installed by Daryl Sogot.
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Marlene additionally thanked the Brothers in Christ, a faith-based NPO, that recently came to the care centre’s assistance and repainted its patio area with durable and weatherproof paint.
Although the care centre is extremely grateful for these donations, Marlene said the NPO is in desperate need of food, specifically nonperishable goods.
Food items that the care centre needs include mealie meal, long-life milk, margarine, cooking oil, tinned mixed vegetables, tinned tomato and onion mix, rice, chicken or beef soup powder, tea and coffee, Mabela or porridge, fresh vegetables, stewing beef, mince and chicken.
Some essential items needed include Vaseline, Dettol toilet spray, toilet paper, disinfectant hand soap, refuse bags, large freezer bags, medium size adult nappies (Softi Brand), linen savers and gloves.
Marlene said besides calling on the community the care centre will continue to host fundraising markets in partnership with the South African National Blood Services.
She said second-hand clothing that has been donated to the care centre and is in good condition, will also be sold to raise funds.
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She urged the community not to use the NPO as a dumping ground for broken objects or clothes that can no longer be used.
“Although we have battled it out, we are getting there. We have to remain positive that 2024 will be a better year,” said Marlene.
Established in 2002, the care centre provides physical, psychological and social care that arises from any terminal illness.
According to Marlene, the 13-bed ward hospice is the only government-subsidised hospice in Ekurhuleni.
Patients are referred to the facility from across Gauteng, including hospitals such as the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, the Helen Joseph Hospital, Edenvale Hospital and the Tembisa Hospital.
Since it was established, the NPO has provided palliative care to more than 1 800 patients, some of whom have recovered enough to return home and to places of employment.
