Care Brings Hope
The management and CIP Committee members of Vincent Pallotti Hospital chose to spend their 67 minutes for Mandela Day at Robin Trust. Thank you for a special morning filled with kindness and care. Our Nest residents loved playing games, building puzzles, and being treated to gentle hand, neck, and foot massages. The delicious refreshments were a real treat too! The staff at Robin Trust truly appreciate your time and thoughtfulness.
In 1993, nurse Leslie Macleod-Downes founded Robin Trust after facing a personal challenge—her daughter Robyn required specialised home-based care, and there simply weren’t enough trained caregivers available. Leslie took action, establishing a home-based care college to equip individuals with the skills to provide quality care. Today, Robin Trust continues to train carers, with a special focus on empowering individuals from previously disadvantaged communities. To help fund this vital training, Leslie pioneered the 1000km Challenge—a movement […]
The Southern Suburbs Tatler published an article on 19 May 2022 about Robin Trust’s International Nurses Day celebration. You can read the online publication by clicking here .
Please join us for a Women’s Conference where we will be stretching our roots wider to connect with each other.
Rosette Sitamili, one of Robin Trust’s home-based carers, received this beautiful testimonial of the loving, compassionate care she provides. Rosette cared for my mother from February 2020, working 7 hours a day, 6 days a week. When lockdown level 5 of the Covid pandemic occurred towards the end of March, Rosette agreed to live in with my mother and quickly became her 24-hour carer when my mother’s health declined. She cared for her singlehandedly until […]
My name is Treska Botha and I am a Registered Nursing Practitioner with an Integrative Practice in Hout Bay called ‘Healing Without Boundaries’. We are training 14 women to become qualified home carers (or nightingales as they call themselves). I am writing this to share my journey of hope and potential with the community. I received many requests for Homebased Carers from the Community and from friends. Their tragic stories about their loved ones struck […]