Foundation helps Hamza and parents smile again

After countless surgeries, and being in and out of doctors’ offices, Hamza Ahmed, 10, can finally breathe well, thanks to a life-changing operation made possible by the Smile Foundation and the Breatheasy Programme at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. To download and read the full article, click here.

This angel never gives up

Sister Jane Booth of the Red Cross Children’s Hospital could talk for hours about all the little ones she cares for. And it would certainly be because she knows them and their families well. She has been working at the hospital since 1979 and spends each working day caring for children ranging in age from […]

A dance of empowerment lessons for the NHI?

The Breatheasy Programme tracks 131 trache children (119 in the home care programme, of whom 26 were living in shacks, 53 in sub-economic houses and 40 in their ‘own’ homes) reveals an 8.18times greater risk of dying in an institution than at home, with trache outpatients only admitted (unscheduled) on average less than once per […]