Please see list of in-kind donations, maintenance and services required at the bottom of the post
The CANSA Strelitzia Care Home provides home-away-from-home accommodation for cancer patients, who live far from treatment centres, while undergoing treatment.
Our patients’ length of stay varies from six to eight weeks (depending on treatment), and patients have the option of going home on weekends.
Patients may bring one caregiver, or loved one along to assist them, providing there are beds available, as preference is given to patients. The Care Home is a self-catering facility.
The Care Home is situated on the same premises as the CANSA Port Elizabeth Care Centre. A panic button has been installed in the event of a medical emergency.
Location:
The CANSA Strelitzia Care Home is situated in Glendinningvale, Port Elizabeth, in a secure environment, and is near the following treatment centres: PE Provincial Hospital, St Georges Hospital and the GVI Port Elizabeth Oncology Unit.
Patients are dropped at the local shopping centre or SPAR when they need to purchase groceries or personal items (usually en route to or from treatment).
For bookings or more information, contact the CANSA Strelitzia Care Home on 041 – 373 5157 or 073 491 0209 | 0800 22 66 22 or info@cansa.org.za
8 Eden Road, Glendinningvale, 6001
P.O. Box 7192, Newton Park, Port Elizabeth, 6055
Cost:
Patients pay a fee of R250 per day and supply their own meals, toiletries and towels. Linen is changed and washed weekly.
Facilities:
- Meals: Self catering – a fully equipped kitchen including a stove, fridge and microwave is available
- Capacity: Three rooms can accommodate 6 patients (2 patients per room)
- Rooms: A communal lounge with couches, 3 bathrooms, 3 toilets, TV’s and air conditioners in lounge and rooms
- Outside: A secure garden area (shared with the CANSA Port Elizabeth Care Centre)
Services:
- Transport: Provision of transport to and from treatment centres (free of charge)
- Medical Equipment Hire: Wheelchairs, walking aids, etc (on request) from the CANSA Care Centre (a reasonable fee or donation is required)
- Assistive Devices: Wigs, and breast prostheses are available at the CANSA Care Centre (a reasonable fee or donation is required)
- Information: CancerCare Coping Kit & information regarding patients’ illness is provided (free of charge)
- Emotional Support: Individual counselling and support groups are offered at the CANSA Care Centre (free of charge)
- Spiritual Support: Various ministers from different denominations are available to provide support (free of charge)
History:
The CANSA Strelitzia Care Home was established in 1993.
Our aim is to ensure that cancer Survivors (patients) and their loved ones know that they are not alone, and to support them through every step of their cancer journey.
To this end our Care Home provides patients with a place to stay near treatment centres and therefore peace of mind, as they receive treatment.
Wilma Peters: “On behalf of my family, I just want to express my sincere gratitude to the CANSA staff.
Thank you for always being available – for just for being there. It really meant so much to me.
Thank you for helping me to maintain perspective, for being real and sensitive. May God bless and keep you.”
Funding:
The CANSA Strelitzia Care Home relies on donations from the public in order to continue providing a home-away-from-home to cancer patients. No government funding is provided.
Please consider making an online donation to support the CANSA Strelitzia Care Home or see EFT details below:
Cancer Association of South Africa
ABSA Bank
Account number : 1007511287
Reference : Strelitzia Care Home PE (SCH)
Public Benefit Organisation (PBO) number – Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA): 130001397
Non Profit Organisation Registration number – Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA): 000-524 NPO
Support Resources for cancer Survivors & Loved Ones
Cancer patients and loved ones are invited to join our FBK Support Group: CANSA Cancer Survivors – Champions of Hope or to join a support group by submitting the online form.
Find additional online resources for cancer Survivors (anyone who has heard the words ‘you have cancer’) or loved ones, and about coping with cancer.
Make an appointment for free CANSA Tele Counselling with a trained CANSA counsellor by submitting the online booking form.
This is a confidential, professional, cancer-related telephonic counselling service to cancer patients (adult / child / teen), caregivers and their families and parents or guardians of children living with cancer.
Counselling is available in seven languages (English, Afrikaans, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho, Setswana and Sepedi) and is free of charge.
2024 – Donations Appeal:
We would appreciate the following donations – if you are spring cleaning or upgrading or downscaling, please remember us:
Maintenance / Repairs / Services / Safety
- Fire alarm detection system
- Electrical perimeter fence
- Reception area (lights)
- Signage and branding
Sustainability
- x 2 Jojo tanks (water)
- x 1 generator
Kitchen
- Crockery
- Cutlery
- Glasses
- Appliances: microwaves, air fryers, fridges, freezers
Bathrooms
- x 3 bathroom mat sets
Bedrooms
- beds (single)
- curtains
- blankets (single beds)
- bed linen (single beds)
- duvet inners (single)
- pillows
Furniture
- lounge chairs and couches
- side tables
- coffee table
- Appliances: TV, fans, heaters
Grocery items
- Breakfast cereals: Jungle Oats, Weet-bix, Maltabella, Morevite, Future Life (sachets)
- Meat (red or chicken) and fish
- Fresh and frozen vegetables
- Fresh and dried fruit
- Soup tinned and frozen
- Tinned food: baked beans, butter beans, sweet corn, pilchards, tuna
- Spreads: butter, margarine, cheese, Bovril, Marmite, peanut butter
- Condiments and spices
- Cooking oil
- Dry ingredients: rice, sugar, cake flour, pasta, samp, maize meal
- Drinks: coffee, tea ordinary and rooibos, milo, long life milk, Oros
- Cremora
- Dessert: custard, jelly
Cleaning materials
- washing powder, fabric softener, bleach
- dishwashing liquid and soap, scouring pad, dish cloths, disposable gloves
- tile cleaner
- Handy Andy
- toilet cleaner, air freshener, toilet paper
- hand wash
- mops, brooms, dusters
- black refuse bags
Toiletries (patients)
- bath soap, shower gel
- toothpaste, toothbrushes
- roll on deodorant (male / female)
- wash cloths
- vaseline
Entertainment (patients)
- Puzzles, games and activity books
- Art and craft supplies (adult colouring in books and colouring pencils)
- Wool and knitting needles
Contact Person:
Contact Nadine Wagner nwagner@cansa.org.za or 060 360 9894 regarding in-kind donations…
