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| DID YOU KNOW |
Hospice care is available to all, irrespective of race, age, creed or gender.
Every patient is supported by a multidisciplinary team consisting of a Doctor, a Nurse, a Social Worker, a Caregiver and a spiritual Adviser.
We offer holistic home care with the back-up of one bed at Vermont.
Hospice is a non-profit making organisation
+/- 30% of funds are raised through Local Fund Raising and +/- 70% through Corporate Donors
1 Doctor
4 Palliative Care Trained Nurses
1 Staff Nurse caring for chronic patients
2 Social Workers
17 Home Based Carers
1 Driver
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| GIFT VOUCHERS |
Hospice Knysna Gift Vouchers
now available.
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| IN AN AVERAGE MONTH |
Hospice care for +/- 430 patients.
for every patient there is an average of 4 beneficiaries.
Hospice makes +/- 2000 visits to patients.
10 vehicles travel approxiamtely 14 000kms.
+/- 'Service Delivery' calls are made telephonically.
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| HOSPICE SHOPPE
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| OTHER INTERESTING FACTS
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We have over 250 volunteers (6 Volunteers to 1 staff member)
We deliver +/- 150 Woolworths fresh food parcels and 15-20 hard food parcels per month.
We have two Hospice Shops (Knysna and Sedgefield).
We have weekly day care at BOND House for +/- 35 patients and twice monthly in Sedgefield.
We have 2 Support Groups in Knysna caring for +/- 50 children and 1 in Sedgefield caring for +/- 15 children, infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
We support patients with poverty alleviation i.e. Bedding, clothes, cupboards, kitchenware, toiletries etc.
We assst with accessing ID documents and all social grants.
Bereavement counselling offered to all.
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" You matter because you are,
You matter to the last moment
of your life,
And we will do all that we can
Not only to help you die peacefully
But to live fully until you die."
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| SIMOLA GOLF DAY
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Over 100 golfers played in the 4th Annual Simola / Knysna Hospice Golf Day hosted by John Bland on Monday, the 17th of December 2007. An enormous amount of R100 000 raised.
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| HOSPICE SHOPPE |
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| HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT HOSPICE? |
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| DID YOU KNOW? |
We have a staff of 40, run 10 vehicles and in a normal month our nursing staff and social workers will make over 3,300 patient visits, travelling over 14,000 km over an area which encompasses Sedgefield, Rheenendal, Knysna and its surrounds, through to Brackenhill. Our services are provided free of charge to all the community.
BUT
We need your help to continue our service
and expand to meet the ever growing demands from our fast growing population!
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| HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT OUR WORK? |
Consider volunteering. Join the +/- 200
volunteers who help deliver our much
needed services. We require both men
and women who feel that they would
like to make a difference, in many
different ways, to our patients. From
assisting in running the Hospice Shoppe
to becoming a care giver.
Join our Donor Club where for R50 per
month you could win cash prizes or
donate the full R50 to the R25 000
per annum we expect to receive this
year
MORE DETAILS
Please phone Annie Ogilvie on 384 0593 to arrange to get together and find out more.
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| DAME CICELY SAUNDERS |
 Dame Cicely Saunders, who has died aged 87, was regarded as the mother of the modern hospice movement.
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| DONOR CLUB |
The Donor Club has now been in operation for 4 years and we hope to contribute R40,000 to Hospice income in the 2005/06 financial year. We have two types of membership.
The first option is for 100% of contributions to go to Hospice funds or you may wish to enter the the Hospice Lottery.
Monthly contributions of R50 per unit of which 50% goes towards the prize pool, and the balance towards the running costs of Hospice. Both these options offer tax deductions on the amounts donated. Draws are held quarterly.
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| HOSPICE CHARITY SHOPPE |
Hospice Charity Shoppe needs men to help as cashiers. Twice a month for four hours is all we're asking. Contact Annie at BOND House on 044-384 0593.
We are also looking for clothing, appliances, books, etc.
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| HOSPICE DONOR CLUB WINNERS
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Hospice would like to congratulate the April draw Donor Club Winners:
1. Wilf Jonchkheere R5000
2. Ian Robertson R2100
3. Bill Tindle R1275
Anyone interested in joining the Donor Club click here for more information
or contact:
Annie at Bond House 044-384 0593.
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