Krakow - Alma Spei

Alma Spei is a voluntary organisation that supports children with terminal illnesses and their families. At any one time it cares for around 50 children in their own homes. 

The organisation's aim is to ensure that everyday problems and lack of money don't stop children and their families from enjoying the time they have left together. It lends out specialist medical equipment and provides free disposable kit to help protect children from infections. It also organises meetings and trips for children and their families, provides a tutor and a travelling library for children who cannot attend school, arranges presents for children, runs support groups for bereaved families and organises birthday parties for patients (such as the photo on the left). Its mission is to keep children smiling until the end.

To date, Cycle Poland riders and the Alina Foundation have donated:

• in 2011, 2700 catheters and  dressings, 
• in 2012, 13,500 catheters, 400 disposable tracheotomy kits;
• in 2013, three patient hoists, four anti-bedsore mattresses, tracheotomy equipment and 12500 catheters, four contactless thermometers for children, an infusion pump, a pulse-oxymeter, and funding for a family activity day;
• in 2014, three blood pressure meter, three stethoscopes, tracheotomy kits, two suction pumps, oxygen therapy equipment;
• in 2015, five pulse-oxymeters and seven sensors for babies and children;
• in 2016, three suction pumps and 14 blood oxygen sensors for children. 
• in 2017, forty nebulisers, two hundred moisture exchangers for tracheostomies, five tracheostomy tubes, 2200 deep suction tubes
• in 2019, two oxygen concentrators
• in 2020, PPE (aprons, masks, gloves) for staff

"It was an honour to meet you all and ride with you. Your help is very important for us, we can feel more confident about our ability to look after children in the future."
– Irena

"Thanks to your donation the hospice can ensure that more terminally ill children can leave hospital and be cared for safely in their family homes."
- Anna 
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Read more on the Alma Spei hospice website: http://almaspei.pl/