Gauteng
Overview
Gauteng is the original branch and has been open since 2002. It has been the pioneer in the field of adoption medicine; providing training to child careworkers who work in children’s homes; and in establishing the first hospital-based paediatric palliative care service in South Africa. The branch office in Braamfontein is the base from which all four programmes, as well as the national administrative functions, are run.
Bigshoes Gauteng:
- Sees over 1600 children annually
- PPC provides specialist services to over 700 children each year
- Trains over 250 care workers annually
- has trained two police officers in every station in Gauteng!
The Team
Current Activities
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Medical Clinics |
An adoption clinic is held at the Bigshoes Office in Braamfontein every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8am to 12:30. Bigshoes also offers “off site” clinics at Children’s Homes and Child Welfare on a monthly basis. |
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PPC |
Bigshoes Gauteng offers Paediatric Palliative Care consultant services to Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital and Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital. They provide medical and psychosocial input into palliative cases and provide training to over 240 staff to increase palliative capacity of hospital. |
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Training |
5-day Basic Child Health courses held once a month and offered to children’s home and community project staff. |
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Abandoned Baby Project |
Courses held as requested and represented on the Gauteng PMTCT Working Group. |