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CANSA Care Homes

A Home Away From Home

CANSA provides home-from-home accommodation to patients undergoing cancer treatment at oncology clinics far from their homes.

Guests at our CANSA Care Homes stay for an average of six weeks and receive meals and transport to and from treatment centres. There are currently 8 CANSA Care Homes in the main metropolitan areas.

Booking Your Stay

Please contact the CANSA Care Home nearest to your treatment centre and book your stay – click on the relevant province and then on the Care Home in the dropdown for contact details. Alternately contact Gavin Kester gkester@cansa.org.za for more information.

In-Kind Donations Appreciated

We truly appreciate in-kind donations – if you are spring cleaning or upgrading or downscaling, please remember your local CANSA Care Home and cancer patients. Find in-kind donation request lists at the bottom of each Care Home post.

Tell Others About our Care Homes

CANSA is committed to connecting people facing cancer with information, day-to-day help as well as emotional support they need in the communities where they live. Our aim is to ensure that cancer Survivors and their loved ones don’t have to face cancer alone; we’re here to support them through every step of their cancer journey.*

* The responsibility rests with patients to contact CANSA for assistance. CANSA is not informed of any diagnoses / of patients being treated at medical centres. Family need to obtain permission from patients, before CANSA may contact them. Read more…

0800 22 6622

072 197 9305
English and Afrikaans

071 867 3530
isiXhosa, isiZulu, siSwati,
Sesotho and Setswana

info@cansa.org.za

Find A Care Home

CANSA Strelitzia Care Home (Port Elizabeth) 041 – 373 5157 or 082 553 9676

CANSA Olea Katleho Care Home (Bloemfontein) 051 – 444 2576 or 083 350 4659

CANSA Tipuana Care Home (Pretoria – Rietfontein) 012 – 329 3036 or 082 318 6080

CANSA Mkhuhla Care Home (Durban) 031 -205 9525
CANSA Johan Schoonhoven Care Home 082 553 9676

CANSA Eikehof Care Home (Athlone) 021-689 5347 or 084 701 4822
CANSA Irma Bruschi Care Home (George) 044-874 4824 or 082 408 9237
CANSA Tygerberg Care Home (Cape Town) 021-931 0990 or 083 465 1944

Our Care Home Offering:

Magda, cancer Survivor, stayed at one of CANSA’s Care Homes, for the six weeks she was undergoing radiotherapy. She had a room overlooking the garden and made friends with two other ladies who were also staying over and receiving treatment. Every day they were transported to the treatment centre. Says Magda, “It’s wonderful here. The meals are just right when you’re not feeling so well. I don’t feel self-conscious. We’re all in the same boat.”

Support Resources for cancer Survivors & Loved Ones

Find additional online resources for cancer Survivors (anyone who has heard the words ‘you have cancer’) or loved ones, and about coping with cancer.

CANSA Tele Counselling can be accessed via the CANSA Help Desk on 0800 22 66 22 toll free, to make an appointment with a CANSA counsellor. Or send an email to the Help Desk via counselling@cansa.org.za – this is a confidential, professional, cancer-related telephonic counselling service to cancer patients, caregivers and their families and parents or guardians of children living with cancer. Counselling is available in seven languages (English, Afrikaans, isiXhosa, isiZulu, siSwati, Sesotho and Setswana) and is free of charge.