Little Eden cares for children and adults with profound intellectual disability. Most are provided with 24 hour nursing care, medicines and therapy to keep them comfortable – as well as food, clothing and shelter. Through multiple caring, medical, therapeutic and supportive programmes the beneficiaries are able to reach their own unique potential, in a dignified, respectful, warm and loving environment that is their permanent home.

The AVI Community Trust continues to support the 5 Little Eden residents adopted and they participate and benefit from medical care and therapy.

Find out more: https://littleeden.org.za/

The Look Good Feel Better programme offers free two-hour skincare and make-up workshops to groups of cancer patients. The programme is specially designed to assist women in active cancer treatment to address their appearance, improve mental health and related side effects of their treatment thus helping them to regain the self-confidence they need to face the world and fight the disease.

The programme supported by the AVI Community Trust reaches 480 patients in the Groote Schuur Hospital in Western Cape and Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Gauteng.

Find out more: https://lookgoodfeelbetter.org/

Unjani Clinic is an Enterprise Development initiative aimed at empowering Black Woman Professional Nurses, creating Permanent Jobs; and perfecting a Sustainable Clinic Model for providing primary healthcare. The clinics serve the “bottom of the pyramid” and under-served markets; ensuring an affordable, quality primary healthcare service and the supply of quality medicines to the people of South Africa.

The clinics are based directly in the communities ensuring that the service is delivered at the point of need. The focus is on the employed uninsured population of South Africa, this constitutes a portion of the population is able to afford to pay something towards their healthcare needs, but are unable to afford private medical aid or private GP/healthcare practitioner rates.

The AVI Community Trust has fully funded the set-up of an Unjani Clinic in Gansbaai to provide the community and surrounding areas with an affordable alternative to quality healthcare. For the employed, uninsured population of Gansbaai and the surrounding areas, the only affordable health facility is the Gansbaai Clinic. The Gansbaai Clinic needs to service the healthcare needs of approximately 8 000 to 10 000 people, which can introduce and increase challenges faced in public health facilities that cater to a large population such as long queues, staff shortages and medicine shortages.

Find out more: https://www.unjaniclinic.co.za/

The Children’s Hospital Trust is an independent non-profit organisation established in 1994 to raise funds to support specific projects and programmes to help advance child healthcare through the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital

For the period the AVI Community Trust contributed towards the Emergency Centre upgrade and expansion at Red Cross Children’s Hospital. The Emergency Centre is the only dedicated children’s emergency unit in South Africa. Operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the primary function of this area is to provide high quality, evidence based medical, surgical, nursing and paramedical services to the thousands of children needing access to emergency and acute services. A child and user-friendly environment is critical to maintaining the high standard of care needed to minimise hospitalisation and facilitate the child’s early return to their family.

Find out more: https://www.childrenshospitaltrust.org.za/