Personal message

On 14 April 2024 we will be running our first half marathon at the Two Oceans half marathon in Cape Town. We would like to take this opportunity to raise funds for Surgeons for Little Lives.

Launched in May 2015, Surgeons for Little Lives is a registered non-profit organisation, with a powerful commitment to saving the lives of sick children. Surgeons for Little Lives is run by a small group of Paediatric Surgeons, and ordinary people, passionate about uplifting the lives of less fortunate children needing life changing surgery.

It was started with the overriding objective of raising the level of care given to patients in the Paediatric Surgery wards in state hospitals, in the Greater Gauteng area, to world class standards.

South African doctors are among the best in the world – but, through circumstances beyond their control, they can’t always provide the standard of care that they would like.

Unfortunately, because available resources are extremely limited, the level of care available to the little patients and their families in the large, over-burdened state hospitals, is very basic. This means it takes longer for children to recover after surgery and complications are more likely to set in.

Surgeons for Little Lives Primary Objective:

To raise money to fund specific projects which will improve the care given to the children served by the Department of Paediatric Surgery in Greater Gauteng and its surrounding provinces.

Their current, and most urgent, projects include:

• A dedicated operating theatre for Paediatric burns patients.
• Providing recovering burns patients with Expression Art opportunities.
• Lactation unit and breast milk bank
• Arrival and discharge packs

All of these projects are based at CHBAH

You can visit the Surgeons for Little Lives website at: https://www.surgeonsforlittlelives.org

Thank you!