The Bialystok hospice started out with a group of volunteers providing respite care, home visits and medical support in 1987. In 1989 the local council gave the hospice a delapidated residential house. This was renovated by volunteers to provide the first residential hospice in Poland, with five beds. That hospice is used to this day. "Such a small house, but how many patients and their families have found comfort within its walls"

A second building, scheduled for demolition was rebuilt and equipped by volunteers and opened in 1992. It provides 30 beds and training facilities. Despite this extra space the hospice currently has a waiting list of around 200 people. Half will never make it to the hospice.

The hospice has started construction of an extension, to provide additional beds so that no one has to be turned away. When we visited construction was under way, but funds are desperately needed to complete and equip the building.

The Foundation has provided an oxygen concentrator and a suction pump.