As one of Dr Robinson’s areas of speciality is working with children, Dr Robinson were faced with children that were very privileged financially and also children out of the rural communities that were struggling to even afford eating one meal a day. In assisting to heal the sorrows of the more privileged children, she developed a programme where children had to assist other children as part of their healing process. The children started to give Teddy Bears with a wish to less fortunate children to teach them to think about others and perhaps children that have worst problems than themselves. 



With this came the idea of the Teddy Bear Foundation as lots of the private clients’ parents became interested in the Teddy Bear Approach and wanted to help children less fortunate than themselves. 

Dr Robinson started a small project the Teddy Bear Foundation where money for a Teddy Bear or a Teddy Bear was sponsored for a child in need. The project grew quickly into a great project.  Dr Robinson started to go into townships, schools, hospitals etc where children were less fortunate and don’t have parents to buy them a bear or have been abused, or diagnosed with HIV/Aids and told them the story of The Teddy Bear Foundation that is “everyone needs a friend when they are sometimes sad and that the little bear will help them to not feel so alone when they sometimes get scared”.

This project is Dr Robinson’s passion and being a mother herself fuelled her enthusiasm to help other children that is not as fortunate as her own.  She has been busy with the Teddy Bear Foundation for the last six years and it has been very rewarding.  With this project Dr Robinson has reached a lot of children that has been struggling with our socio-economic problems in the South African Community and she aims to keep this her main focus for years to come. 

With the Teddy Bear Foundation, Dr Robinson has worked in cooperation with various organisations, e.g. Witkoppen Clinic and Health Centre where bears are distributed to Zandspruit and Diepsloot; Benjay where bears are given to workers to distribute into their communities; Bloemfontein rural areas where bears are allocated to children with Cerebral Palsy. 

Dr Robinson is actively involved in all her projects and try and keep the projects manageable that she can do most of the work herself that she does not lose sight of the importance of not getting others to do your work but to work hard and getting down to doing the work herself with a few enthusiastic volunteers.