Mandela Day 2025 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. Read More

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 Read More

Celebrating the Role of Nurses 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 . Read More

Roots Conference Like branches on the tree, we all grow in different directions, yet our roots remain in Christ. Please join us for a Women’s Conference where we will be stretching our roots wider to connect with each other. Read More

An Angel in Disguise 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 Read More

Caring Without Boundaries 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 Read More