The Turfhall Cheshire Home provides 24-hour specialised care to 68 physically disabled adults. Our mission is to assist people with disabilities, regardless of their colour, race or creed, by providing the conditions necessary for their physical, mental and spiritual well-being.
\nWe opened our doors in 1984, a registered NPO and PBO, affiliated to the Leonard Cheshire Disability Global Alliance which works to improve the lives of disabled people in 54 countries. In South Africa, we have 17 homes of which the Turfhall Cheshire Home is one of 3 in the Western Cape. Each home is responsible for its own funding activities.<\/p>\n
Years in Operation 36 years<\/p>\n Registration Details NPO 014-845 Wish List Turfhall Cheshire Home Online Platforms Website: www.turfhall.org.za<\/a> Cause Highlights We are the proud recipients of the VoQoL (Voice-activated Quality-of-Life) project, created by Coral Tech in 2017 and sponsored by the Telkom Foundation. In October 2018, the VoQoL project won a large grant in the prestigious SAB Foundation Social Innovations Awards, allowing the project to be expanded to other provinces in South Africa. Coral Tech wanted to get a more formal measure of the impact of the VoQoL system for these recipients and, after a year of use, engaged a third-party data analyst to interview Turfhall Cheshire Home residents and staff to get their feedback. The full impact report can be found on the Coral Tech VoQoL website at <\/p>\n The 2020 Coronavirus pandemic outbreak and subsequent lockdown in South Africa have made the use of the VoQoL system even more valuable for our residents at Turfhall Cheshire Home as they have been almost entirely cut-off from their families due to health safety concerns. Using VoQoL, it has allowed them to stay in touch with the outside world with each user totally in control of what they want to hear, rather than having to call for assistance.<\/p>\n Features of VoQoL :<\/p>\n Turning room lights on and off (including dimming) We are proud of this achievement providing our residents with independence – Tulethu a resident, loves \u201ceverything\u201d about the VoQoL technology as \u201cI don\u2019t need to call carers in, because I can do all the things I need to in my room\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Turfhall Cheshire Home provides 24-hour specialised care to 68 physically disabled adults. Our mission is to assist people with disabilities, regardless of their colour, race or creed, by providing the conditions necessary for their physical, mental and spiritual well-being. We opened our doors in 1984, a registered NPO and PBO, affiliated to the Leonard…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-organisations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nGloves
\nMasks
\nLinen savers
\nDry Food & Milk
\nSpecialised Wheelchairs
\nVehicle Insurance
\nBoard Games
\nToiletries<\/p>\n
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\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/turfhallcheshire\/<\/a>
\nTwitter: @CheshireHomeCT
\nPinterest: https:\/\/za.pinterest.com\/turfhallturfhal\/pins\/<\/a>
\nInstagram: turfhallcheshirehome
\nYouTube: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCzGPgVwssuAMNAn6QSgfH6g<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nTurning on a TV and switching between channels
\nTurning on a radio, heater, fan or other wall charged device
\nRequesting and playing local radio stations
\nGetting general information such as weather and news
\nCall for a caregiver by triggering an SMS to an on-duty mobile
\nThe residents who now use the VoQoL system have reported that they are able to use the system between a minimum of 15-20 times per day, and have significantly reduced the amount they are calling upon staff for assistance.<\/p>\n