The European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC), the Worldwide Hospice and Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA) and the International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care (IAHPC) are working together to advocate for the support, recognition, promotion and development of volunteering in hospice and palliative care through the implementation of this Charter with the following aims:

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• Promote the successful development of volunteering for the benefit of patients, families and the wider hospice and palliative care community.
• Recognise volunteering as a third resource alongside professional care and family care, with its own identity, position and value.
• Promote research and best practice models in the recruitment, management, support, integration, training and resourcing of volunteers.

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BELhospice recognised importantance of volunteering as regards the hospice concept and palliative care and fully supports implementation of the Charter and its goals. Through this inititive, BELhospice joined the group of European and worldwide hospices which also signed this Charter and support development of volunteering in palliative care.

We ask you to support the petition „Voice of Volunteering in hospice and palliative care“, which you can sign here.

Charter can be downloaded from our site.

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