Dream Room, safe space for our dreamers

A Dream Room is a safe place where children are able to go during their long stay in hospital to just be a child, ensuring that their developmental milestones are met. The dream room provides a gentle distraction from medical procedures and the hospital environment to allow the children to revive their childhood dreams. It becomes a node of hope in a trying times. With the compass as a driving concept, the dream room has been designed to create an exciting and interactive space that aims to immerse the children in a fantastical journey of the world. The compass acts as the guide to these various destinations for the children to explore, learn and have fun. A Dream Room provides unwell children with stimulation that they would not necessarily get by lying in a hospital bed (having no place to go). This escape, although in the hospital, will allow children to leave the hospital ward and engage in activities such as: Imaginary play (Lego, doll house, imaginary cooking and building), educational games (board games and tablets will provide children with the opportunity to still learn), electronic distractions (game consoles) and creative crafts (beading, painting, drawing, stamping and knitting). To date, The Foundation has proudly opened 19 Dream Rooms in various hospitals around the country. These include Chris Hani Baragwanath, Charlotte Maxeke, Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria and The Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town. These Dream Rooms have created much popularity amongst the children in hospital.