We have numerous significant partners that support our overall goals
Some of these include the Department of Health, the community, but the most important, in terms of implementing the programme is the local hospital. Together with rural hospitals, we identify, train and support rural youth to become qualified healthcare professionals who, in turn, commit to working at their local hospital's for their contract period.
The hospitals are instrumental in identifying, training and supporting local youth in their quest to become health professionals. The management of participating hospitals (CEO, Medical Manager, HR Manager, Finance Manager) must be strongly supportive of the project and be committed to addressing staff shortages through locally trained youth. The hospital Management provides permission for interested school learners to undertake volunteer work prior to selection, the establishment of a hospital selection committee, and allows in-training students to do holiday work annually at their hospital.
The UYDF currently has active working relationships with the following hospitals in the Umkhanyakude District, namely:
- Mosvold Hospital
- Mseleni Hospital
- Hlabisa Hospital
- Manguzi Hospital
- Bethesda Hospital
Our foundation also has participating hospitals in the Zululand district. Those being:
- Benedictine Hospital
- Ceza Hospital
- Nkonjeni Hospital
- Itshelejuba Hospital
- Nkonjeni Hospital
- Vryheid Hospital
Hospitals participating in the King Cetshwayo district are:
- Catherine Booth Hospital
- Ekombe Hospital
- KwaMagwaza Hospital
- Mbongolwane Hospital
- Nkandla Hospital
We have also formed individual relationships with the following two hospitals:
- St. Patricks Hospital - Bizana, Eastern Cape
- Zithulele Hospital - Hole in the Wall, Eastern Cape
For more information about these facilities, find it here.
Funding Organisations
- Aspen Pharmacare
- BIDVEST
- Dandelion Trust
- Discovery Fund
- Douglas Jooste Trust
- Firstrand Empowerment Fund
- Fulton Trust
- Lily & Ernst Hausmann Bursary Trust
- Norman Wevell Trust
- Oppenheimer Memorial Trust
- RED Foundation
- RB Hagart Trust
- Robert Niven Trust
- Robin Hamilton Trust
- Rogerwilco
- SILCOM (Pty) LTD
- The Freddie Marincowitz Welfare Trust
- Zululand Air Mission Transport (ZUMAT)
Individual Donors
- Brian Whittaker Dr Andrew Ross Dr Zandi Rosochacki Glenys Ross Wendy Clarke Ronald & Gill Ingle
- Siyanda Dlamini Carlos Chavarri John Golding Jean Paterson Marion Bergman Jared Cumming
- Michael Savage Dr Gloria Nkabinde Jurgen Fleisch Prof M Siwela Amy Clithero-Eridon John Rosenberg
- Amy MacGregor
- UYDF graduates: Dr MP Cele Dr Nomfundo Cele Thobile Mpontshane Dr Bongiwe Xaba Nontokozo Fakude Dr Mbekezeli Gumbi Nomalungelo Mbokazi Siyanda Dlamini Mvelo Buthelezi Ntando Mkhombo Dr Saleni KhanyileNqobile Myeni Bongumusa Dlamini Immaculate Dlamini Nombuyiselo Dlamini Lungisa Gobinamba Dr Nipho Mangeni