Raising funds for the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital - Cape Town, South Africa

In 2009 my young grandson, Tristan, suffered burns to his upper body and was treated in the phenomenal Burns Unit at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town. It was an extremely traumatising experience for us all and introduced us to the reality faced by so many sick children and their families who have to deal with this kind of trauma.

We are so grateful for the wonderful care and support Tristan received at the Hospital from doctors and medical staff that we decided, as a family, that it would be fitting for us to be able to give back in some way. I’ve therefore committed to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in July 2010 and will attempt to raise much needed funds for the Hospital.

100% of money I raise will be allocated directly to upgrade the Burns Unit - every cent donated to the Hospital Trust will directly benefit the Hospital.

Ultimately, the purpose of this project is to raise funds for an extremely deserving cause. I have given a personal guarantee to match the amount I must raise in sponsorships in the form of financial donations to the Trust.

I am very excited about being able to make a difference and sincerely hope you will be able to come on board with me in helping to get other sick children back home where they belong!



This is how you can get involved....

DONATE A SKILL

If you have a skill that you would like to 'donate' instead of money, this slot is for you.

I will create an event around what you have to offer and 100% of what people pay to attend will be donated to the hospital.

The hair spa day held in March at the Wayne.com salon at the One and Only Hotel is an example of such an event. We were able to raise R5250 on that day.

PLEDGES

Kilimanjaro is 5895m high. You can decide to pledge a certain amount per meter that I climb. You can email your pledges to me at: ferreira@netpoint.co.za OR you can download a pledge page from the section on the right of this page and fax it to me.

If you can't pledge yourself, how about getting your company to pledge and to perhaps even challenge other companies to match or better their pledge!!

DONATE ONLINE OR BY BANK DEPOSIT

On the right hand side of the blog, near the top, there is a section that includes a direct link to the hospital's website.

Read all the directions before clicking on the link, it is important for the hospital to be able to allocate your donation correctly.

The hospital trust will issue a tax certificate for any donation over R100, so that's an extra bonus for both individuals and companies!

AUCTION

I am currently collecting goods to offer on an auction to be held later this year - anything that we can turn into money is welcome!

Just to give you a sample of some of the things we have at this stage: three TOP NOTCH bottles of South African wines, compliments of Janet Malherbe, and five signed copies of a book written by the adventurer and master fundraiser David Grier!

For more info on David: http://www.davidgrier.co.za/

I'd love to be able to offer nights away at wonderful places in our country, romantic dinners at special restaurants etc. So if you have any connections or have something that you can offer yourself, I'd love to hear from you!

Just to make double sure you have my contact details - here it is again: ferreira@netpoint.co.za





Tristan enjoying being a healthy, happy little boy!


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Will try and update on a regular basis!! :)

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Working out the details...

This week I had my first meeting with the Red Cross Hospital. They are very excited about the project and we now need to work out exactly how the fundraising is going to work. Our next meeting is on Monday and hopefully we will have the details on the blog by the end of next week. Tristan went for his last visit to the hospital two days ago and the doctors are extremely happy with how his burns are healing. Seeing all the new children in the ward is simply heartbreaking and just makes me more determined than ever to get going with efforts to help upgrade this much needed facility. As for the training - at this stage I'm running at least every second morning, hopefully I'll be able to start doing some hikes pretty soon. January is a hectic month, February is going to definitely be more structured as far as the training goes. The good news is that Wild Frontiers have signed up one other person to climb on the dates that I am planning my trip, so that's wonderful. The group will consist of 6 climbers only - so now's the time to let me know if you want to join me!! I will be posting loads of photograhs in the near future as well, just need to get the fundraising sorted out. I feel as if my brain is in overdrive, I have SO many ideas and so much to read up on! I hope that you will stay with me on this journey and would love to hear from you if you have any ideas regarding the fundraising part of this project. I'm going to challenge a few of my friends soon to undertake projects such as dinners, sports events etc. There are a few of them who've hosted and organised great events and I certainly hope I can motivate them to join in. You can write to me on the blog in the 'comments' space or you can email me on ferreira@netpoint.co.za. As before - watch this space!
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