International Volunteer Day, 5 December, is celebrated around the world as a reminder of the day when the United Nations’ Program for Volunteers was first created in 1970. At BELhospice center, this day was marked by giving out special certificates of recognition and gratitude to five of our volunteers who made the most hours of volunteering.

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The goal of the united Nation’s program is to encourage as many people as possible to offer their volunteer services. People of good will, as they are often referred to, do not expect financial compensation for their engagement except for the moral and social satisfaction they get. Helping, by devoting their time to others, is an expression of their humanity, solidarity and reciprocity, as well as a sense of responsibility for their community.

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Coordinator of volunteers Mijodrag Bogićević and the director of BELhospice center Zoran Purković have on the occasion of the International Volunteer Day, given five bronze acknowledgments of thanks for more than 200 hours of volunteering, as well as for the contribution to the development of voluntary service and patient care, to volunteers Biljana Stefanović, Katarina Sivčević, Maša Radonić, Marina Nikolić and Stefan Đinović.

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We are proud of all of our volunteers. And we would like to thank them for being responsible, sacrificial and kind towards our patients in this way. The role of volunteers in palliative care is very meaningful and we are aware of the important role our volunteers have in raising the quality of life of terminally ill persons for whose sake our organization BELhospice exists.

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