When David Tasma, a young Polish refugee originally from the Warsaw ghetto, died of cancer in London in 1948, he left a gift of £500 in his will to Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement, and promised that he would be “a window in her home”. That window can still be seen in St Christopher’s Hospice in London, regarded as the first modern hospice in the world. Since then, the hospice movement has spread to many countries across the world and provides holistic palliative care to many thousands of patients and their family members.

Hospices of Hope, we are supporting 5 new initiatives of our partner hospices that desperately need more “windows”. They are:

• A new children’s hospice-hospital and teaching centre for children and neo-natals near Bucharest, Romania (Hospice Casa Sperantei)
• The first resource/day centre/out-patient clinic in Athens, Greece (Nosilia)
• A new hospice centre in Oradea to serve the northern part of Romania (Emanuel Hospice)
• A new resource/day centre/out-patient clinic in Kyiv, Ukraine (CF Svoyi)*
• The first in-patient hospice in Chisinau, Moldova (Hospices of Hope Moldova)*

*These are new projects, currently under design

We need your help to make these projects into a reality, contributions of any value will be gratefully received, but should you choose to donate £500 or more, your name or the name of someone you want to remember will be engraved on a commemorative window of the hospice you choose.