Children of Fire

First National Bank
Cheque Acct: 62025852197
Melville Branch
Branch code 25-65-05

“If you make a donation, you may specify how you would prefer it to be used.

This might mean the name of an individual child could be put on the deposit slip as the reference e.g. Feleng or his full name Feleng Mahamotse.

In that way, the charity trustees can see which children or which projects the general public has most interest in supporting, and plan expenditure accordingly.

Feleng is a special child who needs a new forehead. He has none at all, as it was burned away when he was one month old. He needs to go to Europe or to the USA where surgeons have experience in replacing such a large area of curved bone, in a way in which it hopefully grows with the child as he grows.

No such procedure to our knowledge has yet been successfully carried out in South Africa. Medically it is called a “boney deficit” and the problem is common with children burned while they are still babies. We have four children with this problem.

Other essential projects to prevent injury and devastation are safety infomercials for television (and later for schools).

The charity also assists with safer stove inventions, safer candle holders in South Africa and elsewhere in the continent.

Where resources permit, we assist with local disaster recovery.

The focus remain assisting children with their complex medical, psychological and wider rehabilitation including education.”