Comfort, Ease and Support Reaches Rural KZN as 89 Children Receive New Buggies

Photo Credit: Boikanyo The Dion Herson Foundation via Facebook

Moving hearts and changing lives! Eighty-nine children living with cerebral palsy in rural KZN were gifted custom buggies this month, bringing newfound freedom to young ones and relief to their incredible caregivers.

KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (23 July 2026) – In the heart of Zululand, particularly in the communities of Nqutu and Pomeroy, many children spend most of their days indoors, confined to a bed or chair, able to move around only on their mother’s or grandmother’s back.

This month, 89 of those children and their families were blessed with restored dignity and newfound comfort when they learned it was finally their turn to experience ease and mobility: their buggies (specialised wheelchairs) were arriving!

Thanks to the support of Ruth Stubbs and Value Logistics, Boikanyo The Dion Herson Foundation, together with the Rotary Club of Rosebank, made their way to KwaZulu-Natal. Their mission: to give children living with profound cerebral palsy the gifts of mobility and proper seating support, while granting caregivers the relief of pushing their young ones instead of carrying them on their backs.

Over two days, 22 members from both organisations helped fit and securely seat 89 children into specialised buggies across two local hospitals.

“Children came from the furthest parts of the district, some travelling up to three hours to reach us. They poured in, carried in arms or on the backs of gogos and mothers. It was once again humbling and incredible to see how love can sustain a child and keep them alive,” shared the Boikanyo team.

Several caregivers opened up about the daily struggles of living far from medical facilities and how a lack of resources contributed to the hardship they endure every day.

Photo Credit: Boikanyo The Dion Herson Foundation via Facebook

For most of these families, it is gogos who are expected to take on this immense burden, not only the financial weight of carrying a large household on a state pension, but also the physical strain of carrying a growing child.

This is why this work matters. It lightens a heavy load, makes daily life manageable, and offers children a sense of freedom they have never known before.

As usual, the Boikanyo team says they left the outreach changed people.

“Spending two days in the company of heavenly beings who have had to make the most of tragedy does that to you. We helped; we truly made an incredible difference. The 89 children, and the roughly 900 family members living in those households, can attest to how much easier life has become,” the team noted.

It is never just a chair on wheels. It is comfort, dignity, and movement. It is support where there was none before. It is lives changed for the better.