A High-Tech St David's Day at Childen's Hospital

On St David’s Day 2007, the education room at the Children’s Hospital for Wales became a place of up-to–the-minute learning for the young patients.  Thanks to a large donation from the Royal Masonic Trust for Girls and Boys, sick patients will have the same resources to keep up with school as their friends who are fortunate not to be in hospital. Touch screens to aid those with limited movement and visually impaired IT packages with Braille printers will mean all patients can be involved.

A teacher is on hand to run lessons and now the new IT equipment will enable children to aid their learning in the same way as if they were at home or in school. For many of the children who spend months in hospital at a time this could mean the difference of keeping up rather than falling behind at school. 

The Masonic Lodges have been staunch supporters of the Noah’s Ark Appeal since the beginning of the campaign in May 2000 raising over £100,000 towards the building costs of phase one. The Provincial Grand Master and his Deputy will present the equipment and watch it used by some patients. They will then tour the hospital and see the plaque situated in the four-bedded unit funded with their donation.