Project Report
| May 10, 2024
Dream Rooms
By Natalie Lazaris | Head of Business
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Dream Rooms are a haven built in the paediatric wards throughout different hospitals across South Africa. The foundation has over 52 dream rooms. These rooms are equipped with learning material, mind stimulating games and tools such as virtual reality googles.
These rooms assist in the mind development of the children in hospital that cannot go to school due to their illness. The rooms a built to bring education to the in-hospital children, and fun learning experience, produces joy, hope and resilience to keep on fighting. It encourages peer engagement and support to each other.
Dream rooms ensure that our in-hospital children do not miss out on education and that their minds are continuedly stimulated. By entering the dream room they engage in mind stimulating activities, interaction with each other, helps them forget about the strain the illness places on them, they forget about the medical procedures they go through on a daily basis.
Dream rooms have a great impact in the children lives, as they give them an environmental change within the hospital, making them proactive by getting them off their beds and walking with the intent of getting into a happier space. This helps with their emotional wellbeing, because they get to laugh, smile, learn something new and make meaningful relationships with their peers.
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Jan 10, 2024
Dream rooms
By Natalie Lazaris | Head of Business
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The dream room project has become the most successful project that the Foundation has - focused on hospitals. To date we have 52 successfuly built rooms within paediatric wards in public hospitals. The project focuses on creating a better environment for children in hospital. The project is based countrywide and successfully impacts hundreds of chidlren monthly, all of whom are fighting a chronic illness.
These rooms add so much value to the children and their families, but also to the hospital staff.
These rooms are kitted with entertaining toys, educational items, books, games and jungle gyms. Interns have been placed within these rooms to faciliate programs to ensure the development and well being of the children who use these rooms.
In 2024 we are looking to build another 8 rooms and would like the global community to assist us in raising funds in order for us to do so. Please consider donating towards the dream room project today.
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Sep 11, 2023
Dream Rooms
By Natalie Lazaris | Head of Business
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A Dream Room is a haven for our dreamers, a place to escape from their reality and experience happiness. It is a room built in the pediatric ward of a hospital, to help our dreamers in their healing process. It provides the dreamers with a place to learn life skills, that they may not be able to achieve while in their hospital beds.
The dream room provides a gentle distraction from medical procedures and the hospital environment, it helps reduce stress and anxiety experienced by the dreamers during their stay at the hospital. It enhances their recovery process, physical, mental and social awareness. It is a place for children to interact with one another for them to build a friendships with each other. There are educational games such as art and crafts, boards games like scrabble, and spelling test. There are also imaginary games to help stimulate the children's minds. We have interns and volunteers that are there to engage with the children and give them any type of assistance needed.
We are able to fulfil dreams in he dream room for children that are hospital based that can not leave the hospital. We are also able to interact with our dreamers in the room. The foundation can host small events in the room time to time to entertain the dreamers and put a smile on their faces for that day.
The foundation aims to build 45 dream rooms across the province by the end of the year. We have 40 dream rooms in place already that are fully functional. The dream room play a huge role in our dreamers life's. The foundation will continue inspiration and manifesting hope through dream rooms.
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