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Butterfly Palliative Home

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Butterfly Palliative Home is a children’s hospice providing holistic palliative care to vulnerable children in South Africa.

Founded in rural KZN, we currently have two in-patient children’s hospices and home-based care teams.

05/11/2026

Our children's hospices are currently running low on the following essential items:

⭐️ Smooth Peanut Butter
⭐️ Nappies sizes 4 to 7
⭐️ Lactogen / Infacare Formula Milk Nr 3 & 4
⭐️ Futurelife Smartfood (original)
⭐️ Longlife Milk

Any donation of these items, or a financial contribution towards purchasing them, would be greatly appreciated! ❤️

Any hero willing to bless our Butterflies can have items delivered to:

Butterfly Palliative Home
1 Eland Crescent
Nyala Park
Empangeni
3880
Contact Nr: +27 66 435 1302

Alternatively, a donation can be made with the reference “wishlist”.

PAYPAL: paypal.me/butterflyph

BANK: Butterfly Palliative Home
FNB Cheque Account
Acc No: 62857825742
Branch: 250069
Swift Code: FIRNZAJJ

It truly takes a village to care for our Butterflies, and we are so grateful to our virtual village who keep our hands and hearts strong! 🙌🏻💪🏽🤟🏻

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05/11/2026

Our Empangeni Hospice has two special needs currently if anyone is able to assist🙏🏻

We are in need of a heavy duty blender (for making tube feeds) and hair shavers to keep our kiddies looking fresh and stylish💪🏻💪🏿💪🏽

Anyone who would be able to assist with either of these items can please drop off or deliver at 1 Eland Crescent, Nyala Park, Empangeni🩷

It takes a whole virtual community to care for our precious Butterflies and we are super grateful for ours🦋🦋🦋

04/11/2026

Sister Nelly explains why she loved working at Butterfly Home😊🦋🦋🦋

30/10/2026

Have you ever wondered what food prep looks like inside a children’s hospice? Our teams take every care to make healthy, nutritious home-cooked meals bearing in mind each child’s special dietary needs.

Some of our children eat soups through tubes, have soft diets, salt-free, sugar-free, gluten-free,lactose-free and more!Each meal needs to be labelled individually and stored specifically. It’s hard work! But seeing the children enjoy their meals and thrive makes it all worth it💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

29/10/2026

Breaking News!

This past year our team has been hard at work developing a 3-month course titled “Becoming a Children’s Palliative Caregiver”. This course is specifically designed for individuals who want to make caregiving a career. Since we have always struggled to find caregivers trained in working with children we decided to write our own curriculum with the help of a generous Rotary Global Grant🙌🏻

We have learned so much over the years of training carers at our Butterfly Homes and would love to see an educated, dedicated and passionate community of children’s palliative caregivers go into clinics, homes and communities across South Africa and bring forth some much needed change and service delivery at grassroots level

Currently 13 caregiving students are training through the pilot programme and from January 2027 the course will be open to students four times per year. And it gets even better - the textbook will be published next month🎉🎉🎉

Over the next few days we will be sharing more about this exciting and comprehensive new course and how to enrol for January🎉

28/10/2026

Hi friends! Here is our Wednesday Wishlist for this week🙏🏻

Any donations towards chicken/beef, bananas, yoghurt (lactose free if possible), baby food pouches (for tube feeds) and sugar free peanut butter would be hugely appreciated!

Donations for both homes can be done at 1 Eland Crescent, Nyala Park, Empangeni.

Together we can be the hands and feet of Jesus to children with life-limiting illness🦋🦋🦋

22/10/2026

TW, if you’ve ever wondered, THIS is the level of spectator enthusiasm required when our Butterflies open their birthday presents. “Ooooooh!”, “Aaaaaah!” and “Wooooooow!”😂🤣

22/10/2026

Loooooook who turned 12 yesterday!! 🥳🎂

A VERY happy birthday to our funny, silly, adorable Sunny-bunny!

We can't believe that it has been eight years since we brought this little girl home to Butterfly. Back then she was already in heart failure, and we didn't know how much time we would have with her. Fast-forward eight years and look at her now! TWELVE YEARS OLD! Just one more year until we have an official teenager on our hands! 😱😂

Sunny, you keep us laughing with your little antics and those wonderfully cheeky expressions of yours. We feel so immensely happy and blessed to have you in our lives and part of our Butterfly family!

Happy birthday, Sunny girl! We love you more than words can say! 💗🎉

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21/10/2026

When Yassie wears her pink winter jacket with the hood up, she reminds me of a cutesy garden gnome. Adorbs! 😍

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19/10/2026

Congratulations to Samantha Harding of Addison Medical Centre for being this year’s winner of the Butterfly Home hamper🎉🎉🎉

You all had such creative hats, but this one seems to have attracted the eye of the judges🥳

Your pamper hamper will be dropped off this week💪🏻 Enjoy🎉

Address

1 Eland Crescent
Ingwavuma
3880

Opening Hours

Monday	08:00 - 00:00
Tuesday	08:00 - 17:00
Wednesday	08:00 - 17:00
Thursday	08:00 - 17:00
Friday	08:00 - 17:00

Telephone

+27712773861

Website

https://butterflyhome.org.za/

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