Listen to Children in Soweto Hospice

Aileen O’Meara Media travelled to South Africa in August 2008 to report on the work of the hospice movement in the country. Aileen produced a series of audio slideshows/podcasts for the UK-based Help the Hospices organisation, and for the Irish Hospice Foundation, who funded the trip. Her interview with Dr Kieran Creagh, the Pretoria-based Irish priest who runs the Leratong hospice, was featured on the Myles Dungan Radio Programme on RTE Radio One; she wrote a lengthy feature for the Sunday Business Post about the hospice movement in South Africa, and her radio essay on the build-up to the World Cup was featured on RTE Radio’s “World Report”.

Dr Louisa Ferreira

She met people in hospices all over the country, the nurses and doctors, and founders of the vibrant country-wide hospice movement.

Dr Louisa Ferreira is the medical director of the Children’s Hospice in Cape Town in South Africa. She is passionate about pain relief for children with life-limiting illnesses, including HIV. This is one of three audio slideshows produced for YouTube for World Hospice Day in 2009.