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OUR AIM
The aim of the Boikanyo Foundation is to reduce the number of disadvantaged and underprivileged children awaiting life-changing heart surgery and to improve the Children’s Heart Surgery unit at the The Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) by providing resources and opportunities.
OUR HISTORY
CMJAH situated in Parktown, Johannesburg (RSA) is a tertiary level, academic, public sector hospital that serves a conservative estimate of ±12,000,000 people over three provinces. The Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery has only 3 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds and a limited budget available with which they can perform around 150 open heart procedures on children per year. This falls drastically short of the nearly 220 cases presented for surgery per year, leading to an ever increasing waiting list for heart surgery. Many of these children require relatively simple procedures, such as closing small holes in their hearts, which if repaired, would provide them a normal quality of life and life-span. Tragically many of these children will become inoperable, are lost to follow-up or die before being granted the opportunity to undergo lifesaving heart surgery. It is for this reason that Golden East 181 Round Table through the Association of Round Tables Southern Africa and the CMJAH created the Boikanyo Foundation.
OUR WAY OF WORKING
One of the major factors limiting the number of open heart procedures performed at CMJAH, is the shortage of trained ICU sisters and the retention of staff to watch over our children post-operatively. Due to CMJAH kindly donating theatre time and theatre staff at no extra cost, all the Boikanyo Foundation needs to finance is the necessary medical consumables required and the additional nursing staff to care for the children in ICU. Therefore we are able to keep the costs to a minimum, make the most use of your generous donations and save a life for approximately R50,000.
However, from time-to-time when the shortage of medical staff grinds the theatres to a halt, the Boikanyo Foundation steps in once again to attract staff from private hospitals at discounted rates to keep our theatres running and save another life. Who knows, maybe one of our children will become the next Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu or Mark Shuttleworth. Without the Boikanyo Foundation, we will never have the opportunity to find out.
OUR ADMINISTRATION
The Boikanyo Foundation is administered free of charge by members of the Association of Round Tables Southern Africa and the CMJAH. Furthermore, thanks to a generous grant from the Carl and Emily Fuchs Foundation, the Boikanyo Foundation has now been able to employ a Fundraiser and establish formal offices to aid us in achieving a sustainable future. This enables us to direct all our funds raised and donated towards saving children’s lives and improving the Paediatric Cardiothoracic Unit at CMJAH.
OUR NAME
Our name, The Boikanyo Foundation, was proposed by the ICU staff of CMJAH. The word originates from Tswana and directly translated means “We rely on you”, for it is our nation’s most destitute and impoverished children that rely on us to change their lives forever and for the better. |
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A Non Profit Organisation incorporated under Section 21 Registration No 2006/037038/08 Public Benefit Organisation PBO 932002897, certified to issue 18A tax Certificates
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