By Natalie Lazaris | Head of Business
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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