Please see list of in-kind donations, maintenance and services required at the bottom of the post
The CANSA Tygerberg Care Home is a wonderful home-from-home to cancer patients receiving cancer treatment at Tygerberg Hospital, far away from their own homes.
Patients’ length of stay varies from six to eight weeks, and patients have the option of going home on weekends if possible.
CANSA staff are available 24 / 7 and one staff member is on duty at night. Staff also work closely with hospital staff, informing them if a patient is ill.
Location:
The CANSA Tygerberg Care Home is situated in Parow, on the grounds of Tygerberg Hospital, in a secure environment, in Proteahof (next to nursing college).
Patients can visit the local hospital cafeteria from Monday to Friday, and there is a tuck shop in the Oncology Treatment Centre (X-Block).
Bookings need to be made through Tygerberg Hospital’s Oncology Department.
General queries may be directed to staff at the Tygerberg Care Home on 021 569 0350 or 083 465 1944 | 0800 22 66 22 or info@cansa.org.za
1st Floor, 3rd Tower, Protea Hof (next to nursing college),
Tygerberg Hospital, Fransie van Zyl Avenue, Tygerberg, Parow, 7505
P.O. Box 186, Rondebosch, 7701
Cost:
Patients should bring their own toiletries and towels, and are welcome to make a donation.
Facilities:
- Meals: Breakfast and supper are provided at the Care Home, and Tygerberg Hospital provides lunch. Meals are adapted to the medical needs of the patient, and are eaten in patients’ bedrooms
- Capacity: 20 patients may be accommodated in x 6 twin-bed rooms and x 8 single-bed rooms
- Rooms: A combined lounge / TV room where patients can relax or watch TV
- Laundry: Linen is changed and washed weekly by staff
- Outside: None
Services:
- Medical Equipment Hire: Wheelchairs, walking aids through local CANSA Care Centre (a reasonable fee or donation is required)
- Assistive Devices: Wigs, breast prostheses, mastectomy and lumpectomy bras, lymphoedema garments and stoma products through local CANSA Care Centre (a reasonable fee or donation is required) / nutritional supplements may be obtained through the hospital (free of charge)
- Information: CancerCare Coping Kit and information patients’ illness
- Emotional Support: Individual counselling is available (free of charge)
- Recreational Activities: Once per month volunteers run arts & crafts activities (free of charge)
- Spiritual Support: Three interdenominational groups are held per week (free of charge)
History:
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 peace of mind, as they receive treatment.
Funding:
The CANSA Tygerberg 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 Tygerberg Care Home or see EFT details below:
Account Name: Cancer Association of South Africa
Bank: ABSA
Branch Code: 632005
Account Number: 100 751 1287
Reference: Tygerberg CH
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
Sustainability
Kitchen
- crockery & cutlery for x 40 patients
- glasses
- water jugs
- appliances: microwave, chest freezer, small fridge, toaster, tumble dryer
Bathrooms
- x 4 shower curtains
- x 8 bathroom mats
Bedrooms
- x 40 mattress covers
- x 40 bed side mats
- x 40 blankets
- x 40 three quarter duvet covers
- x 40 fitted sheets (single bed)
- x 40 pillows
Furniture
- chairs, couch (not material covered)
- appliances: x 1 smart TV
- curtains
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
- Sewing machine, fabric, cotton
Contact Person
Contact Julina Pofadder jpofadder@cansa.org.za regarding in-kind donations…
