Total number of children supported to
date: 312
Total number of flights
sponsored to date : 1305
Total number of bus tickets sponsored to
date : 48
TOTAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN ASSISTED
DURING OCTOBER: 16
Andriola
–
13
years.
Pulmonary
Hypertension. Returning to RCCH for a
check up and further treatment.
Elao – Age 1 month. Prolonged neonatal
jaundice (billiary artresia). He was
assessed at RCCH, and will return in 3
months time for a possible liver biopsy.
Sinesipho – Age 7. Chronic renal failure.
Attending renal clinic for transplant
review.
Nompilo – Age 13. Aplastic Anaemia.
Requires a bone marrow transplant in
Cape Town. Her brother, Sanele will be
the donor. Nompilo, Sanele, and their
mom flew from Durban to Cape Town.
Siwamkele – 6 years. Acute Myeloblastic
Leukemia. Traveled from East London to
Cape Town for Chemotherapy treatment.
Cassidy – Age 4 months. Billiary artresia.
Going to Red Cross for follow up at the
Liver Clinic.
Lumengo – Age 6. Burkitt’s Lymphoma.
He has completed his course of
chemotherapy at RCCH, and is returning
to Frere Hospital in East London.
Chad – Age 7. End stage renal failure.
Flew from East London to Cape Town.
Chad will be having his kidney transplant
on 3 November. Here’s wishing him all
the best for his transplant. We will be
thinking of him and praying for a quick
recovery.
Christena – Age 10. Acute Myeloid
Leukemia. Urgently required treatment at
RCCH.
Alouise – Age 9. Relapsed Anaplastic large
cell lymphoma. Alouise has been a
patient of ours for a few years, and
unfortunately has had a relapse and
required follow up treatment at RCCH.
Flew from George to Cape Town.
Bonginkosi – Age 14 years. Acute
leukemia. Going to Tygerberg Hospital in
Cape Town for treatment.
Lukhanyo – Age 8 months. Leukemia.
Returning from Red Cross, and will
continue his treatment in hospital in
Uitenhage for 2 months, and will then
return to Cape Town for follow up
treatment.
Bongani – Age 16. Lymphoblastic
Leukemia. Bongani regularly travels by
bus between Peddie and Port Elizabeth
for treatment at Provinicial Hospital.
Pumza – Age 19. Relapsed Leukemia.
Travels by bus between Aliwal North and
Port Elizabeth to receive treatment at
Provincial Hospital.
Anathi – Age 17. Acute lymphocymc
leukemia (ALL). Anathi has relapsed and
receiving treatment at Provincial hospital
in Port Elizabeth. She regurlarly travels
between East London and Port Elizabeth
for treatment.
Gemma – Age 3. Hyperinsulinism. Gemma
is completely dependant on receiving all
nutrition through her feeding peg and is
flying to Graz in Austria, where she will
attend a world renowned feeding clinic to
learn to eat and drink normally.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNERS
MONTHLY CLUB 500 DRAW
OF
Congratulations to the following winners:
 First Prize: R300, Sharon Findlay
 Second Prize: R150, Rob Jones
 Third prize: R75, Tommy Scanlen

With a membership fee of only R150 per
annum, you too can become a member of
the Wings and Wishes Club 500. Each
member will automatically be entered into
the monthly draw. These take place at the
Coca Cola Sabco offices in Port Elizabeth on
the last Friday of every month, under the
guidance of our auditor’s, PWC. Member’s
attendance is not required at the draws, and
winners are notified telephonically. If you’re
interested in joining, please contact Lisa on
(041) 364 3055 or email letords@iafrica.com.
JOHANNESBURG GOLF DAY HELD ON 8
OCTOBER
Our Johannesburg Golf Day was a great
success. We had 26 participating four balls,
and feedback from the players was that it
should become an annual event on the JHB
Golfing Calendar! Thank you to all those who
participated and to our very generous
sponsors who made sure that many golfers
walked away with incredible prizes.
ANOTHER SUCCESS STORY FROM GRAZ,
AUSTRIA : TAYDEN LEARNS TO EAT
Our regular newsletter readers will no doubt
be wondering what progress Tayden made in
Austria. The exciting news is that he no
longer has a feeding peg, and is eating and
drinking on his own, and loving it! The
Hershensohnn family is on their way home to
Port Elizabeth, and this is an excerpt from
the last blog that Brene (his mom) wrote
from Graz on 29/10/2010.
“If we have to sum up our trip to Austria in
one word, it would simply be: SUCCESSFUL!
But the success is not ours alone and we
would like to thank everyone who
contributed so generously with their time,
efforts in arranging fund raisers as well as
those who dug deep into their pockets and
assisted us in raising the amounts we needed
to get Tayden to Graz. Thank you so much!
Our work is not over yet and Tayden will
continue with OT and Speech Therapy on our
return to PE but we have a little boy who is
eating and drinking and it is amazing to
witness!
I cant wait to arrange the party that l
promised him - a combined 2nd birthday and
an official THE PEG IS OUT party! Who-hoo!
We had a meeting with Prof Duntiz
yesterday after play picnic and she just
cannot stop smiling at Tayden. Says he is
just so cute and now that he is eating, he is
even cuter! (think she is very happy to have
another successful case!) Got to laugh at
that one! Everything in his case has gone
quite smoothly and although we have been
warned that he might start refusing food
and drink soon, he hasn’t done this as yet as l say, l am not sure he has that memo yet!
Boy, and can he EAT!!!!! We had speech
therapy with Elizabeth and she was playing a
game with him where he had to feed the
animals.
There were a whole lot of them, a pig, a
cow, a dog etc and he was really happy
moving them around in the tractor UNTIL
she....brought out some food! The food was
meant for the animals but Tayden took one
look at the pretzel sticks and the HIPP
(purity) that she was offering them and got
stuck in. The more she told him 'Nein Tayden
Nein, it is for ze piggie!' the more he flapped
his hand at her and shoveled the food into
his mouth. He started taking HANDSFUL of
HIPP (purity baby food) and pushing it into
his mouth until his whole face was covered
in food and he had so much there that we
thought he was going to spit it out or
choke as
he
used
to.
But no, he stood very still and after about a
minute he had swallowed it all and was
heading back to the HIPP jar! I have a photo
of him standing licking the lid of the HIPP
jar…..
It is sad to have our last day here today and
say goodbye to the people who have all been
so good to us, assisting us and teaching us
how to get Tayden to eat. If someone has to
ask me exactly HOW it happened, l honestly
don’t know. All that l do know is that
through a lot of prayers, hard work,
commitment and the magic of Graz our little
man is eating again!”
Insert photo’s of Tayden
WINGS AND WISHES SPONSORS GEMMA’S AIRTICKETS TO GRAZ, AUSTRIA
Gemma (age 3) was born with a genetic condition called Hyperinsulinism, and as
an indirect result (due to regular feeds received via the peg inserted in her
stomach), she has never learnt to eat normally. Gemma and her parents, Michael
and Debbie, live in Lesotho, and she has spent a large part of her life in hospital in
Bloemfontein, Johannesburg and even London, where she had 95% of her pancreas
removed at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Micheal and Debbie have taken Gemma to see numerous specialists in South Africa,
and none have been able to wean her off her dependency of her feeding peg. This
family also eventually heard about the success stories of children who attended
the Feeding Clinic at University Children's Hospital Graz in Austria
(www.notube.at).
The Deutschmann’s embarked on a huge fund raising initiative to collect R200 000
to pay for the trip to Austria. Wings and Wishes have sponsored Gemma and
Debbie’s air tickets, and the family departed for Austria on the 30th of October.
Gemma officially starts her programme on 2 November. Follow her progress on her
website http://preciousgem.weebly.com
Insert pic of Gemma
PAJAMA DONATION
Our Wings and Wishes office recently received a big box filled with over 30 pairs of
pajama’s from the Thomas family in George. Rachel (age 8) suffers from Aplastic
Anaemia and had a bone marrow transplant in 2009. We have assisted the family
with air tickets between George and Cape Town on numerous occasions.
Thank you for this wonderful donation – each and every pair of pajama’s will be
used in our Mercy Packs.