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Our Day Centre is staffed by professional child psychologists, play therapists, counsellors and medical staff and opens on three days a week from 10am to 3pm. There are sessions for groups of children and young adults who are chronically or terminally ill. Many are brought to the day centre in the hospice’s minibus. Wherever possible, our doctors and nurses control a child’s medical condition to enable them to attend the day centre.  

The Mobile Hospice service provides urgent medical treatment to terminally ill children living within a 200 km radius of Minsk.  

The summer holiday hospice complex is situated in Zabrodie, a village in the countryside about 100 km from Minsk. Groups of up to 12 children can stay there for 2 weeks in a holiday environment, giving them the opportunity to have fun in the fresh air and to socialise with other children. The holidays are run by trained professionals backed up by volunteers who help run activities. 

Families can receive specialist medical advice or counselling either in person at the hospice or on the phone by talking to one of our trained staff.

This service is very popular with housebound children who, due to prolonged illness and isolation, do not have much laughter in their lives. ‘Doctor Clown’ visits them at home and cheers them up. As well as being fun, children are helped to talk about and to cope with their fears, anxieties and uncertainties. A visit can help to make the child’s emotions more positive.

The Hospice has a volunteer co-ordinator who recruits volunteers (mostly students and members of patients' families) to help at the hospice.

Staff at the Belarussian Children’s Hospice deliver specialist training in palliative care to doctors, nurses and other health-care professionals.