![]() ![]() Mrs Brown joined the Hospital in 1995 and believes that in South Africa, the social factors which affect the child, caretaker, family and community systems negates the best medical treatment, the care and the healing which healthcare workers achieve. The Social Worker in me won and I enrolled in the School of Social Work as the faculty was then known.” But the struggles of my own parents, our family being evicted out of our birth community and the difficulties faced by the communities I loved were foremost on my mind. ![]() “At the University of Cape Town, I initially wanted a degree in English as poetry was a great love of mine. He remains an inspiration to many of his old school students. Mr King went onto successfully lead various school campuses and he is currently the Head of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy. He inspired his scholars to transform their lives through education, think deeply about the communities and struggles they were born into, he recognised and honed leadership, he encouraged them to find strength in their past and rise to the top in whatever they set their hearts and minds on, especially careers. One of Mrs Brown’s teachers at school was a Mr Melvin King who was a great listener. I remember my father taking me to Maitland Cottage Hospital to play among the tall dahlia flowers and meeting Professor Sywers so that they could talk about their common interest in Disa flowers. As a young scholar, excited to be joining my mother at work, I spent many school holidays packing theatre packs for the autoclave machines. My father worked as a gardener and then as a painter in the workshop at the Hospital, so as a toddler, my mother would sneak me into the segregated wards to have a peak at the babies and then take me into CSSD. She was initially employed in housekeeping and then went on to work as a technician in CSSD for more than 40 years. “I remember when I was older, my mother telling me that she scrubbed the cement blotches off the floors. Her mother started working at the Hospital when it opened its doors in 1956 and she feels that this led her on her personal pathway in life, pledging her career to children in desperate need of protection. Mrs Carla Brown is the head of Social Work: Child Protection Services at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and is an extraordinary woman with a heart of gold and a determined goal. I wanted to work where the children were cared for and healed.” I wanted to be part of this wonderful world. “I can truly say that I grew up hearing stories of all the wonderful work which the staff at Red Cross Children’s Hospital accomplished.
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