Providing Shade Structures for the Patients’ Car Parks
The charitable housing set aside for children with cancer and their families — those who cannot afford accommodation of their own — has parking for their cars, but no shading over it.
Target group:
Children with life-threatening illnesses, both inpatients and outpatients, at King Fahad National Centre for Children's Cancer who use the charitable housing.
Location:
King Fahad National Centre for Children's Cancer – Riyadh.
Financial scope:
SAR 40,000.
Project rationale:
• Around (4,225) families benefit from the Centre's charitable housing each year, and their stay usually lasts more than a month or two.
• Helping to shield patients and their cars from the intense heat of the sun.
• Providing a complete service and improving the experience of visiting patients using the Al-Mutawa housing.
Facts and figures:
• Around (352) families benefit from the charitable housing each month.
• Around (4,225) families benefit from the charitable housing each year.