Butterfly Palliative Home

Butterfly Palliative Home Butterfly Palliative Home is a children’s hospice providing holistic palliative care to vulnerable children in South Africa.

Founded in rural KZN, we currently have two in-patient children’s hospices and home-based care teams.

Dear friends, may you be quieted by God's deep love for you today. How amazing to know that the God who created the univ...
23/02/2026

Dear friends, may you be quieted by God's deep love for you today. How amazing to know that the God who created the universe rejoices over us with joy and loud singing! 🥳🥰🙌🏽

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We would like to give a huge shout-out to Bay Shipping who visited our Empangeni hospice this week, spoiled the staff an...
20/02/2026

We would like to give a huge shout-out to Bay Shipping who visited our Empangeni hospice this week, spoiled the staff and children, and also made a generous financial donation. Thank you so much to this incredible team🦋

This tax season, why not make a CSI donation that will truly make a difference in the lives of the most vulnerable children in SA? We are 100% donor reliant and offer hospice services free of charge to children with serious and life-limiting consitions.

Butterfly Palliative Home is a registered PBO, BEEE compliant and can help you MAX YOUR TAX🎉

We promised you some "twinning" photos, and here they are! 👯‍♀️Lulu and Hope spent the morning in the garden enjoying th...
20/02/2026

We promised you some "twinning" photos, and here they are! 👯‍♀️

Lulu and Hope spent the morning in the garden enjoying the sunshine in their matching little outfits, Hope with her sparkly unicorn and Lulu with her floppy-eared bunny. I won’t lie, it is a little secret pleasure to play dress-up with our babies, it is just so cute! 🦄🐰

We are so happy that Lulu is settling in nicely at our Empangeni children's hospice with all her new sisters and brothers. We are really enjoying getting to know her and seeing her little personality unfold. 😍

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19/02/2026

According to a new study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 10.6 million children aged 0 to 19 were living and dying with Serious Health-related Suffering (SHS) in 2023—96% in low- and middle-income countries. Previous estimates of the global total of children requiring palliative ...

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19/02/2026

Go Gords Reid🎉🎉🎉

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Throwback to the day Sunny decided she was absolutely meant to be Shrek! 😝Quick reminder as the tax year wraps up. If yo...
19/02/2026

Throwback to the day Sunny decided she was absolutely meant to be Shrek! 😝

Quick reminder as the tax year wraps up. If you have been thinking about donating, gifts to Butterfly Home help us care for children like Sunny. As a registered NPO, we can issue Section 18A tax certificates, allowing you to claim back on your contribution.

Email us at info@butterflyhome.org.za

PAYPAL: paypal.me/butterflyph

BANK DETAILS:
Butterfly Palliative Home
FNB Cheque Account: 62857825742
Branch: 250069

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When you just don’t want to wake up in the morning😂We all have those days…Joshua decided a second snooze on the couch be...
19/02/2026

When you just don’t want to wake up in the morning😂

We all have those days…Joshua decided a second snooze on the couch before breakfast was in order today. Let’s hope that BOKOMO Jungle Oats kicks in and gives him energy for the day😂

Give once. Benefit twice. 💞As the South African tax year comes to a close, there is still time to make a donation that c...
18/02/2026

Give once. Benefit twice. 💞

As the South African tax year comes to a close, there is still time to make a donation that changes lives and may benefit your tax return. 💸

When you donate to Butterfly Home, you are helping us care for vulnerable children with life limiting conditions. And because we are a registered non profit with Section 18A status, your donation may be tax deductible.

That means your generosity supports real care today and could ease your tax burden tomorrow.

It is a simple way to turn compassion into practical impact. If you have been thinking about giving, this is a powerful moment to do it. Make a donation that gives back in more ways than one.

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Amy is a very good mommy! 👶🏽🍼👩🏽‍🍼🦋🦋🦋
17/02/2026

Amy is a very good mommy! 👶🏽🍼👩🏽‍🍼

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Just a girl and her sparkly unicorn. 🦄✨We had a little impromptu photoshoot in our Empangeni garden recently with our sw...
16/02/2026

Just a girl and her sparkly unicorn. 🦄✨

We had a little impromptu photoshoot in our Empangeni garden recently with our sweet girls, Hope and Lulu. They even wore matching outfits for the day, which was just too cute. Here is Hope thoroughly enjoying the experience with her favourite sparkly soft toy.

We will be sharing the photos of Lulu and the "twinning" shots later this week, so keep an eye out for those! 👭👧🏽👧🏾

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💗❤️ Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us here at Butterfly Home! ❤️💗☝🏼☝🏼 Here, colour our faces! 🎨🖍️🫟
13/02/2026

💗❤️ Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us here at Butterfly Home! ❤️💗

☝🏼☝🏼 Here, colour our faces! 🎨🖍️🫟

Thanks to our incredible community two of these chairs have been fully funded🎉
13/02/2026

Thanks to our incredible community two of these chairs have been fully funded🎉

Bath time should be a time of relaxation and comfort, but for some of our Butterflies with limited mobility, it can be a difficult and stressful part of the day.

We are looking for some special heroes to help us purchase two paediatric bath chairs (size: Medium), one for our Empangeni home and one for Ingwavuma. These specialised chairs are designed to make bathing a whole lot safer and more comfortable for our children who are not very mobile.

They are quite pricey items, but the difference they make to a child’s daily dignity is priceless. Each chair costs approximately R7,130.00.

For our international friends, this is roughly:

$400 USD
£315 GBP
€375 EUR

If you are able to bless our Butterflies by making a donation towards these chairs, please use the reference “bathchair”.

A reminder to our donors: As a registered non-profit, we can issue Section 18A tax certificates on donations if requested. 📑

PAYPAL: paypal.me/butterflyph

BANK DETAILS:
Butterfly Palliative Home
FNB Cheque Account
Acc. No: 62857825742
Branch: 250069
Swift Code: FIRNZAJJ

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Address

1 Eland Crescent
Ingwavuma
3880

Opening Hours

Monday 08:00 - 00:00
Tuesday 08:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 08:00 - 17:00
Thursday 08:00 - 17:00
Friday 08:00 - 17:00

Telephone

+27712773861

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Our Story

Nestled on top of the picturesque mountain community of Ingwavuma, South Africa, is a very special place called Butterfly Palliative Home. Here we care for orphaned and abandoned babies from all over South Africa who need a family and special medical care due to life-limiting conditions. All of these little ones have a story to share. Their stories are mostly heartbreaking, filled with sad memories and many visits to the hospital. But they all have one thing in common: they are survivors - they are little warriors - and they now call BPH their home...

It all started in January 2018 when our founders, Christoff and Tarryn Bell, received a phone call about an abandoned baby boy from Soweto who needed a home. This tiny person happened to be discovered by a jogger out on his morning run who heard a noise and found a tiny baby discarded in the bushes. At the time baby Si was thought to have Down Syndrome and was estimated to be about six months old. Cold, dehydrated and emaciated, little Si was rushed to a nearby hospital to receive emergency medical treatment.

The Bells adopted their son Joshua, who has Down Syndrome, in 2015 and the hope was that they might be interested in adopting another little guy with the same diagnosis. Christoff Bell, a medical doctor at Mosvold Hospital, and his wife Tarryn, a social worker, were running a Christian non-profit called Izandla ZeAfrika at the time. It soon came to light that baby Si’s condition was much more serious than anticipated and he was diagnosed with Trisomy 18 or “Edwards Syndrome”, a condition which is widely regarded as not being compatible with life. Baby Si was in bad shape and not given long to live.

The Bells could not shake the feeling that they were called to help this little one as well as others like him. After much deliberation and prayer they decided to take Si into Foster Care and opened Butterfly Home for babies with palliative needs. The little home was started as a project under Izandla ZeAfrika and started with four home-based caregivers who were trained to look after children with special needs. A week after Si arrived at Butterfly home the next butterfly was placed, and soon after that another one. The little ones kept coming and the home grew and grew. Si began to flourish and was quickly surrounded by five brothers and sisters.