Financial feedback September

Dear all,

As you can read on our website, we report on what's been done at each of our partner projects financially on a monthly basis.

So here it goes!

In September for the Dream Centre funds have been spent on:


- Diversional therapy programmes

Funds have been used for diversional therapy programmes (bingo, artwork, beadwork, transport costs, movie night, etc) with the patients. Diversional therapy activities enhance the patient's mental and physical capacity through interaction in games and social activity. The issues addressed are the need for mental and physical stimulation, hand-eye coordination as well as ensuring that patients get out of bed thus limiting bed sores.
Approximately 50 patients attend each activity. Each activity is held weekly. Patients involved in these activities include patients on the ARV programme and those preparing for discharge.
The programme is reviewed monthly to ascertain its effectiveness and relevance. This review is done with staff and volunteers.
This is a project that has grown steadily and has the interest of the majority of patients. They are pleased at the opportunity to learn skills (beadwork) that can be used in the community thus ensuring that income generating work is done to supplement income.
This project is largely volunteer supervised. Volunteers make purchases and arrange times, venues etc for the project as well as ensuring that patients are brought from the wards and returned to the wards.


- Medicine project

Funds have been used to pay for the supply of urgent medicine for certain patients.
This funding has enabled the Dream Centre to provide urgently needed medication not usually provided by the government supplier. These medications were needed to treat patient's special clinical conditions and were needed without delay. The issue of expanding the Dream Centre's pharmacy and the lack of appropriate medicines has become apparant in this instance.
The patients have been provided with much needed medication. The provision of the medication resulted in patients being treated without delay.


- Oxygen project

Funds have been used to pay for the supply of urgently needed oxygen for specific patients.
This funding has enabled the Dream Centre to provide urgently needed oxygen not usually provided by the government supplier. The oxygen tanks were refilled and used to treat patients experiencing breathing difficulties prior to transfer to state hospitals. The need to have a constant supply of readily available oxygen has been identified and addressed through this exercise.
The patients have been provided with much needed oxygen therapy assisting with breathing and extending life capacity. The provision of the oxygen resulted in patients being threated without delay, stabilised and thereafter referred to government hospitals for further treatment.


- Pajama/gown project

Funds have been used for the balance/completion of the pajama/gown project. This payment has been done stages as the completed pajamas and gowns are received.
This funding has enable the Dream Centre to provide pajamas and gowns to all patients. This is especially helpful when patients are admitted without appriopriate clothes or need good clean clothes to go to the various hospitals etc. They also ensure that patients are kept warm.
Volunteers made the initial enquiries regarding design and cost and got several quotes. Different companies were visited and various meetings took place at the Dream Centre. 'Inside Out' was chosen to supply the stock to the Dream Centre. The volunteers have been excited and enthusiastic about the project.


Any input you might have regarding these reports is more than welcome.

Kind regards,

Jetske