
Brief Overview:
CANSA’s purpose is leading the fight against cancer in South Africa through enabling research, educating the public and providing support to all people affected by cancer. Extensive cancer research is used to realign health programs and strengthen their ‘watchdog’ role. Education about early detection is emphasised, to enable more effective treatment and better chance of recovery. Lifestyle Risk Assessments and Screening Tests for breast, cervical and prostate cancers are available at CANSA Care Centres throughout the country and from mobile clinics.
Counseling for cancer victims, long-term survivors and their loved ones are organised into active Support Groups (both community based and online) for insight, emotional support and understanding, hope and inspiration, as well as bereavement support when necessary. Home-based care, a collaboration between professional CANSA staff and the community, focuses on appropriate care and comfort, access to health and support facilities, volunteers and the participation of family members. CANSA also supports patients by lending or helping them to obtain assistive devices & equipment to help them cope with cancer treatment and after surgery.
Be active and healthy – have some Feel Good Fun, while raising awareness and funds for CANSA and the fight against cancer in SA. CANSA staff & volunteers are present at CANSA Active Events, raising awareness about living a balanced lifestyle; playing sport safely in the sun and providing free sunscreen that carries the CANSA SunSmart Seal.
Find us on:
www.cansa.org.za | www.facebook.com/CancerAssociationOfSouthAfrica
Contact us for any queries or donations:
Email info@cansa.org.za | Toll Free Call Centre: 0800 22 66 22

Brief Overview:
"If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals." - Albert Einstein
FreeMe KZN Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre exists to help in the care and rehabilitation of injured and sick wildlife. With the ever increasing human population and resultant development, indigenous wildlife throughout the world is coming under threat as a result of conflict with people in the race for space and resources to survive. South Africa is no exception. Indigenous animals are injured and orphaned as a result of human activities at an ever increasing rate. It is for this reason that our centre, FreeMe Wildlife Rehabilitation KZN (FreeMe KZN) was established, along with many others spread throughout South Africa. FreeMe KZN aims to rehabilitate these animals so that they may be released back into the wild, in areas free from poaching and with reduced human activity.
A volunteer from FreeMe Gauteng realised that the animals from this area were either being sent to CROW in Durban or were being handled by various individuals in their private capacity. This meant that wildlife going to CROW were driven for long periods of time before receiving treatment and were being subjected to a complete change in climate and environment. The likelihood of them ever being returned to the Midlands area was very remote. Together with Wessa (Wildlife and Environmental Society of SA), a team was set up to establish FreeMe KZN and the organisation was donated land by a local farmer and a state of the art clinic, built by a local developer, just outside Howick - an ideal location to service an area stretching from Pietermaritzburg up to the Drakensburg and from Ixopo through to Greytown. Last year FreeMe KZN handled 754 animals, including 54 antelope. 15 of these were TOPS (threatened or protected species). All of them were released back into areas designated by Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife as suitable for their release.
Experienced staff have been employed to run the centre and to provide quality care, which is in the best interest of the animal, no matter how big or small. Donations will be used to fund a new bird sanctuary, as well as a new shelter for injured, sick and orphaned antelope.
Find us on:
http://freemekzn.co.za | https://www.facebook.com/KZNFreeMe
Contact us for any queries or donations:
Roz Marais | Tel: 033 330 3036 | Fax: 086 653 9658
If you would like to know anything further or be a part of our great initiative, please email marketing@roag.co.za.
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