SHAWCO, University of Cape Town, Faculty of Health Sciences, Cape Town (2025)

Students’ Health and Welfare Centres Organisation (SHAWCO) 💙 is a UCT student-run NPO empowering communities, inspiring students & driving change through health, education & social impact across Cape Town! 🌍
🌱 Building a brighter country - together. SHAWCO Health co-ordinates eight student-run clinics each week in over 12 developing communities: six clinics which operate at night from Monday to Wednesday in various Cape Town communities. Each clinic has a qualified doctor to supervise the volunteer students, and a registered dispensing nurse who oversees the clinic pharmacy. All services and treatment is offered free of charge to patients. SHAWCO Health is one of the 3 major sectors of SHAWCO (Students’ Health and Welfare Centres Organisation), which is a dynamic, innovative and passionate student-run organisation based at the University of Cape Town.

05/11/2025

🌟 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙀𝙥𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙙𝙚 01 🌟

At SHAWCO, we love celebrating the incredible people who inspire change in our communities! 💙

This week, we’re spotlighting Dr. Tarryn, one half of the empowering podcast The Ovarian Club - where women’s health takes center stage. Through her passion and dedication, Dr. Tarryn is breaking barriers, starting conversations, and empowering others to do the same.

Here’s to the changemakers who remind us that impact starts with action!

18/09/2025

“You asked me what family is…”

Last Saturday, we saw it come alive in Houtbay. In many communities across South Africa, accessing healthcare isn’t just about treatment - it’s about overcoming barriers. Long distances, overcrowded clinics, and limited resources often mean that care is delayed or missed entirely. But when we come together, we can change that.

At Hangberg Sentinel Primary School, we collaborated with to host our annual Family Day Clinic, and this year’s impact was profound.

📍 424 patients registered
👩‍⚕️ 14 doctors & medical students saw 250+ patients
🦷 treated 180 patients
🎀 screened 168 women with 9 referred for further care
💊 A fully stocked pharmacy served the community
👥 24 community health workers from /HIVCare and received in-service training while supporting screenings

This day was made possible by the generosity and dedication of many:

"We get to choose our families… We get to make ourselves and we get to make our family."
— Dev Hynes

To every volunteer, every organisation, and every person who showed up: thank you. You reminded us that healthcare is not just a service - it’s a human right, and a shared responsibility.

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27/08/2025

🔷️ SHAWCO Family Day Clinic 🔷️

Join us in Hout Bay for a full day of community-centred care, in partnership with incredible organisations across medicine, public health, dentistry, nutrition, and more.

Whether you’re in Medicine, Physiotherapy, Speech-Language Therapy, Audiology or OT — this is your chance to:
- Serve women, children and men from the community
- Learn alongside peers and professionals
- Build your clinical confidence while making a real impact

🎁 Bonus perks:
- First 30 clinical student sign-ups get FREE scrubs!
- All sign-ups are automatically entered into our raffle (the more shifts, the higher your chances)— more details coming soon!

Details
- Saturday, 13 September
- Shifts: 8:00–12:30 or 12:30–16:30 (or stay the whole day!)
- Transport from UCT provided. Limited parking available — DM us if you’d prefer to drive.
- Lunch provided

🔷️ Sign up: https://signup.com/go/aOssxZu
If you’re staying the whole day, please sign up for both shifts.

Let’s show up, serve and celebrate community care together. We can’t wait to see you there! 💙

05/08/2025

In case you missed it, last Saturday our Health and Rehabilitation SHAWCO-ites collaborated with Sisanda FunDaytion to help children in Tambo Village!

From face painting and balloons, to hockey and healthcare - an abundance of amazing memories were made!

So many children's lives were impacted and we'd love to extend a huge thank you to The Crazy Store Book Dash Tiger Brands and Jungle South Africa for helping us do that! 🎈📚

We cannot wait to see you at the next clinic!! 💙

Address

University Of Cape Town, Faculty Of Health Sciences
Cape Town

Website

https://shawco.org/

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