Charities
Flying For Life
Flying for Life is a Johannesburg-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the upliftment of rural communities across South Africa. Through dynamic collaborations with both external partners and local community members, they strive to empower these regions with transformative medical advancements. Their commitment extends to reaching even the most remote areas, utilizing various transportation methods, including aviation, for rapid and timely interventions when needed most.
Mobile Health Clinics Foundation
The Mobile Health Clinics Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to running mobile health clinics that address health-related learning barriers. They thrive on collaboration, partnering with both public and private organizations. Their mobile clinics are top-notch and customizable to each school's unique needs, guaranteeing flexible service delivery. Their projects are both scalable and results-driven, showcasing their positive impact on communities.
Amref Health Africa
Amref Health Africa, headquartered in Kenya, stands as the largest Africa-based international non-governmental organization (NGO) with a rich legacy spanning over 60 years. Operating across more than 35 African countries, we have gleaned invaluable insights from our collaborations with governments, communities, and partners, all driven by the shared goal of enhancing sustainable health access throughout the continent.
MSF Doctors Without Borders
MSF is a global network of principled medical and other professionals working in teams, small and large, to respond to the medical needs of people affected by conflict, disasters and epidemics and those excluded from healthcare. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality. Their mission is to increase sustainable health access to communities in Africa through solutions in human resources for health, health services delivery and investments in health.
Youth Health Africa
Youth Health Africa is a leading youth development and empowerment organisation in the health sector. The team of passionate, creative, tech-savvy and courageous individuals are committed to ending youth unemployment and HIV across Africa in our lifetime. YHA actively decreases the spread of HIV and reduces the high levels of youth unemployment through a large-scale holistic program which equips youth from heavily-burdened communities over with knowledge and education about HIV and AIDS; as well as work experience.
Reach for a Dream
Reach for a Dream believes in the power of dreams; they encourage children to use their dreams to fight life-threatening illnesses and they try, as far as possible, to make these dreams come true. Their vision is to grow the Foundation to enable them to continue giving hope to children fighting life-threatening illnesses through the fulfillment of their dreams and making their national projects available to as many of the children as they can, the projects include: Camp Sunshine, Queen for a Day, Captain Courage, Show You Care Send A Bear and the Jabulani Kingdom Hospital entertainers which function on an ongoing basis.
RuDASA
RuDASA believes that the long term solution for rural health care in South Africa is adequate and appropriate training of South Africans to meet the needs for health care professionals in underserved rural areas. We are involved in a number of initiatives to lobby for and address these needs. (See elsewhere on this site, including scholarship schemes and electives programmes). We also support the principle of the Melbourne Manifesto with respect to the need for a Code to govern the International Recruitment of Health Care Professionals. Within this context, it is obvious that we in South Africa will remain reliant on the services of foreign qualified doctors to staff our rural health services for many years to come.
Just Footprints Foundation
Just Footprints Foundation believes in providing equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate against its employees, volunteers or applicants because of race, colour, religion, sex, disability, national origin, age, marital status, sexual preference or orientation, medical condition, or any other legally protected class or status.
Surgeons for Little Lives
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.
CHOC Childhood Cancer Foundation
CHOC Childhood Cancer Foundation was established in 1979 as a support group to parents of children with cancer, by parents of children with cancer. Having experienced the immense emotional and financial toll that cancer takes they recognised there is more than one victim in the family of the child with cancer. Their aim was to ease the burden on parents facing the same journey by providing access to relevant, accurate information, as well as emotional and practical support..
STEPS Charity NPC
STEPS Charity NPC is a national and regional non-profit organisation and social enterprise working for the eradication of clubfoot as a disability in southern and east Africa. Their story started in 2003 with the birth of a boy with clubfoot in South Africa.After successful treatment by Dr Ponseti in Iowa, Karen Moss returned home and told the story of her son’s successful treatment to local doctors. Karen founded STEPS in 2005 to introduce and promote the Ponseti Method of clubfoot treatment in Southern Africa and support families going through the process..
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