R67 for Dignity: Hospital Care Bags

Nobody plans to be admitted to hospital. It happens on an ordinary Tuesday, after an accident, a collapse, a diagnosis that couldn't wait. People arrive in our public hospitals the way emergencies deliver them: with nothing. No soap. No toothbrush. No towel. The clothes they came in, and that's all.

HospiVision has walked the wards of South Africa's public hospitals since 1997. We've learned that long before anyone asks for counselling, they need to feel human again — a wash, clean teeth, a towel of their own. Small things, until you don't have them.

This Mandela Day, we're packing 499 dignity bags for patients across our partner hospitals in Gauteng and the Western Cape, and handing every one over personally by our own hospital volunteers — not left in a storeroom.

However you give, it becomes a bag

There's no fixed way to take part. Money and items go toward exactly the same goal.

• Give money. R67 | one rand for every year Madiba gave to public life, is our guide amount. Give R67, give more, giv...