CAPE TOWN – A non-profit company (NPC) that operates across South Africa has supported hospital patients spiritually and through counselling for almost 30 years.
HospiVision has, since 2009, supported more than 201 392 people across South Africa, 45 605 of these reached in 2025 alone.
Western Cape operations are headquartered at Tygerberg Hospital in Parow.
HospiVision manages a large and diverse team of volunteers who provide spiritual care and emotional support to patients across the hospital’s many wards. It has partnered with the Tygerberg Pastoral Forum, which the hospital recognises as the official body for spiritual care. The NPC also serves as a training hub for future ministers. HospiVision also provides paediatric support, using play-based emotional support, with donations of soft toys, blankets and puzzles from partners such as Kenridge Dutch Reformed church.
Tygerberg Hospital is one of the largest hospitals in the Southern Hemisphere and provides an ideal setting for an integrated approach that also involves spiritual care, counselling and volunteer training, said Christél Kloppers, marketing manager.
The non-profit also operates at Karl Bremer Hospital, where it offers pastoral support and counselling.
HospiVision also offers skills-development programmes, which include digital-skills, baking and sewing training, and a soup kitchen. The programmes, which 131 people completed last year, are currently offered in Gauteng only.
Founded in 1997 by faith-based organisations and churches in the Moot area of Pretoria to support patients at the Tshwane District Hospital (formerly Pretoria Academic Hospital), the NPC was in need of soft toys, blankets and puzzles for paediatric patients and toiletries such as soap, toothpaste and sanitary products. It was also in need of volunteers to carry out its mission to patients.
To donate visit www.hospivision.org.za/donate
