Nonprofit organization PLAMIENOK provides help in three main areas:

• We provide home care services to terminally ill children. We offer these children a chance to spend their time at home, surrounded by their loved ones. A doctor, nurse, psychologist and social worker visit children at their homes within 2-hour car ride distance from Bratislava. We provide palliative care to children from newborn babies to 18 years of age.
• At Plamienok Counselling Centre, we welcome children and families who have lost a loved one (a parent, a sibling, a child). Through individual and group meetings, we aim to help them in coming to terms with their loss. Twice a year, we organise a therapeutic weekend that offers them the opportunity to get to know each other better, and to learn from each other. By sharing their experience, they don´t feel alone in such a situation, which helps them a lot in coming to terms with their loss. In addition, they can get inspired by each other since every family finds itself in a different stage of the bereavement process, it is important for them to see that another family has already gone through this or that stage and it is really doable. Besides, every summer, we organise a therapeutic camp for children, which provide them with a lot of new experiences and friends.
• We organize further professional training courses for those interested in obtaining knowledge of paediatric palliative care and bereavement. We believe that improving practice through further learning for professionals can in turn have positive impact and improve help we offer to terminally ill children and their families.

Why we need your help:

Dear Dobrá Krajina donor,

Neither children nor families who visit us at Plamienok Counselling Centre after the loss of a loved one pay for the specialist psychological and psychotherapeutic services we provide. Therapeutic weekends and therapeutic summer camps for children after the loss of a loved one are also free of charge.

Being a nonprofit organization, all salaries of our specialists and other running costs for the Counselling Centre as well as all the running costs for therapeutic summer camps for children and therapeutic weekends for families are solely paid by gifts and donations. Without these we would be unable to continue with our work for the families.

Also thanks to your support in 2015, we were able to host 71 children in a summer therapeutic camp organized by our Counselling Centre annually.

In 2015:

- 109 children,

- 102 adults,

- 76 families,

used services of Plamienok Counselling Centre and spent overall 952 hours with us on individual and/or group therapeutic meetings.

Each such therapeutic hour spent here either on individual or group meetings is an important milestone for the families on their journey to regain and rediscover their life path again. After long periods of sadness, a lot of these families feel some sort of a relief, inner peace and last but not least joy of life.

Become one of our regular donors - become a ray of light that will help lead the families on this journey. Let us help together so that the families can experience new sunrise after a dark night. Thank you.