Fundacja Hospicyjna
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Mission Statement
The Gdansk Hospice Foundation has been a registered charity since 2004 to promoting the idea of hospice care in the community - both in Pomerania and throughout Poland. The Foundation's undertakings are diverse in nature, but one of its key assumptions is the material and substantive assistance for Polish hospices, patients and their families as well as the promotion of voluntary work. The immediate reason for the organisation's foundation was a need to support the Father E. Dutkiewicz (SAC) Hospice in Gdansk; the first hospice and palliative care centre in Pomerania.
About This Cause
The Hospice Foundation fulfills its statutory goals in the following areas: - Content-related, educational and financial support for hospices. - Social education about the end of life. - Development of voluntary services for people at the end of their lives. - Welfare and psychological support for people coping with the problems of loss, orphanhood, bereavement and fighting cancer. All the activities of the Hospice Foundation are intended to bring comprehensive support to people approaching the end of life, to their relatives, adults and children – both during the time of illness and after the death of a close one – with total sympathy and the awareness that, even though death is an inherent part of human life, it is difficult to prepare for one’s encounter with it. • Father E. Dutkiewicz SAC Hospice Our objective: to create an environment of loving and professional care for the largest possible number of chronically and terminally ill adults and children. The Hospice started to operate in autumn 1983. Father E. Dutkiewicz SAC Hospice runs the Hospice Home for Adults and Children, the Home Hospice for Adults, the Home Hospice for Children, the Hospice Perinatal Care and the Palliative Care Outpatient Clinic. Care is provided to some 1000 patients, adults and children, each year. There are also support groups for adults and children in bereavement. The hospice employs approx. 100 people under various forms of employment and there is a large group of cooperating volunteers supervised by the voluntary service coordinator. Over 100 trained workers support the medical staff in stationary and home care, in administrative work, charity tasks and training and in the maintenance of the center’s website: www.hospicjum.info. • Financial Support Financial support is made possible by campaigns, charity text messages, public collections, 1% income tax donations and donations from public and private funds. Support is also provided in the form of medications, medical equipment, training courses, publications and welfare benefits for orphaned children and young people. • Content-Related Support Content-related support can be provided through training courses, conferences, publications and sites. Its goal is to supply the tools and skills required to independently work for one’s organization: to acquire funds, keep in touch with the local community and develop voluntary services. www.hospicja.pl is the first portal in Poland dealing with the issues of palliative and hospice care: late-stage illness, death and bereavement. It serves as a source of information for patients and their relatives (a database of Polish hospices) and volunteers as well as a forum for experience sharing by palliative and hospice centers in Poland. www.tumbopomaga.pl is a website on bereavement, intended for children, young people, their parents, guardians, teachers and psychologists. It is a source of information and a platform for individual contacts through a toll-free number, e-mail or personal meeting at designated locations across the country. • Development of the Voluntary Service An important element of the Foundation activities is the development of the hospice voluntary service. Our Objective: Forging social awareness, anyone can be a volunteer. - Promoting bedside hospice support among adults - Promoting hospice volunteer work among children, teenagers and adults • Care-Oriented Voluntary Service – The Pomeranian School of Care-Oriented Voluntary Service The Pomeranian School of Care-Oriented Voluntary Service (PSWO) is a project aimed at the creation and development of the voluntary service within long-term home care and at health care and social welfare facilities. We wish that in all places where there are dependent, sick, old and lonely people, there were volunteers to take care of them, assist them in their everyday activities and spend time with them. The experience of the hospice movement, where care teams have worked with volunteers for several dozen years, points to the importance of their presence and assistance – for patients and relatives but also for the teams themselves. These good practices can be used in healthcare facilities and other areas of home and long-term care. The priority task of PSWO is the implementation of the pilot project entitled “Care-Oriented Voluntary Service”. • Care-Oriented Voluntary Service – a Pilot Project The project includes 5 medical facilities in the Pomeranian Province. It arose as a response to the growing need for the support of care teams operating in the domains of healthcare and welfare which were unable to assure comprehensive care to their charges (www.wolontariatopiekunczy.pl). • Orphaned Children’s Fund Support for patients and their relatives is also carried out through the Orphaned Children’s Fund. It was established in 2006 in response to the need for special care for children whose closest family members are or were taken care of by a hospice. The Fund also takes care of the healthy siblings of chronically ill children. By 2014, the Hospice Foundation helped about 6500 children through the Fund. Our objective: bringing joy and a sense of security to the lives of bereaved children and young - The organisation of vacations, the purchase of school needs, gifts for Christmas and Children's Day (June 1st), which is widely celebrated in Poland. - Educational support: fulfilling passions tuition support. - Psychological support all children and young people who are in mourning, as part of the Tumbo Helps project. - Social support The financial situation of orphaned families often deteriorates drastically and surviving children in mourning suffer social exclusion due to their financial position. His “otherness” is felt particularly at school, among peers. Frequently, learning difficulties occur. It also turns out that for financial reasons it is not possible to continue earlier hobbies or favourite activities. The Orphaned Children’s Found tries to meet all these issues. Sponsorship enables hospice centres to support children in additional tuition or on developing their abilities. Supportive businesses also help organize the holiday trips, both in the Summer and Winter holidays as well as organizing found-raising events to pay for school books which are not normally provided free in Poland, as well organizing presents for Christmas and Children’s Day. Since the Spring of 2012, the Volunteer Center operates a social therapy centre called The Marina. • Tumbo Helps After a close one dies, nothing is the way it used to be any longer. The “Tumbo Helps” Program is intended to help children and young people during bereavement as well as their parents, guardians and teachers accompanying them in these difficult days. The website www.tumbopomaga.pl gives the necessary information and professional advice on how to go through mourning consciously and to the end in order to be able to rebuild one’s life and regain a sense of security. • Cancer Fighting Academy The Cancer Fighting Academy offers free support and health education to anyone in need of assistance in coping with their own illness or that of their relatives. Classes are aimed at working on emotions, ideas and convictions which frequently hinder the healing process, and they may take various forms: lectures, individual consultations, personal development workshops, psycho-educational groups, support groups and others. They are conducted by psychologists, dieticians, physiotherapists and clergymen. The Academy’s tasks additionally include prevention and social education through the organization of workshops and talks for particular social groups. Classes at the Academy are a supplement to but not a substitute for treatment. • Social Education Multidimensional social education both at the micro level, addressed to people that already have an understanding to the hospice idea, as well as at macro level, to people outside this group is undoubtely the most complex task of the Foundation, an objective that will tak emany years to accoplish. The dissemination of this knowledge will help both long – term social programmes and campaigns around the hospice movement, as well as the on – going activities of the Cancer Fighting Academy. One of its basic aims is to change social attitudes towards cancer as an incurable illness and the awareness of the patient’s role. • Social Campaigns Every year the Hospice Foundation conducts the national social campaign “Hospice is also Life”, intended to break the taboos associated with hospices and to promulgate the idea of terminal care. Subsequent campaigns focus on different aspects of palliative and hospice care – communication with patients and their relatives, ways of helping bereaved adults and children, forms of hospice voluntary service and opportunities of participation by various age groups. During each campaign, its themes are presented in the media in the form of documentaries, television broadcasts, spots, articles in the press, radio broadcasts and coverage of charity and information campaigns organized by hospices. This combination of national and local activities leads to the education of our society and a change in their perception of end-of-life care as well as the involvement of local communities in the centers participating in these campaigns. • Publications As part of its educational activities, the HF has published 17 books for employees and volunteers, teachers, care assistants and all the people co-operating with palliative and hospice centers in any way.