ST. LAZARUS HOSPICE,
THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
TO PEOPLE IN DISEASE
a charitable society
registered on September 29, 1981
GENERAL PROVISIONS
- St. Lazarus Hospice, the Society
of Friends to People in Disease, called hereinafter the Society, is a
registered charity association possessing a personality-at-law.
- The Society has been called to
provide care to heavily ill persons, mostly with tumours, throughout the
final stage of their lives, and to assist their families.
- The Society shall operate on the territory of Poland
and the registered office of its authorities is the city of Kraków.
- The Society is authorised to use
stamps and logos in accordance with applicable provisions.
- The Society may join domestic and
foreign associations with same or similar scope of activities.
- The society bases its operations
on voluntary work of its members, but it may employ persons to perform its
statutory operations.
GOALS AND MEANS OF
ACTIVITY
The Society aims
at
a) bringing
the social help to the persons in a difficult situation and their families,
making their opportunities in the society equal to other groups
b) charity
activity
c) health
care and health promotion
d) activities
to handicapped people
e) education
and research in the area of health care
f)
activities for European integration and development of
the contacts among the nations
g) promoting
volounteer activities
2. The society is also active in the area of providing
help for seriously ill individuals, especially sick with cancer and other
terminal diseases. It also provides help for the families in the time of
serious sickness of one of the members – and during the time after death of
such individual.
3. The society is disseminating the ideas and methods
of the hospice help, realizing this help is getting new individuals of the good
will able to provide free help and care for individuals included in the care
program.
In order to realize
the statuory goals The Society is also active in the following areas:
a) health care
b) educational care
and social care without providing the dwelling
c) research in the
area of medicine and pharmacy
d)
non-institutionalized forms of education, not categorized in other areas: in
particular training programs, conferences, seminars and congresses of the
hospice and palliative care workers and other interested individuals.
e) issuing books,
brochures and other publications from the area of promotion and health care and
promotion of volounteer movement
f) providing other
printed material thematically linked with the promotion and health care and
promotion of volounteer movement
Activity mentioned in
the paragraph 1 is provided free of charge.
The society is basing
its activity on social work of its members and volunteers, however the society
can also employ some workers.
In order to
realize its goals, the Society is cooperating with governmental and local
goernmental offices, media and other institutions defined by the law of April 24, 2003 regarding regarding
the activity for general social benefit and volunteering. The Society is also
cooperating with other non-governmental institutions, church charities,
ministry of health institutions, the National Health Fund organization and also
other national and international organizations providing the similar services
and activities.
For obtaining material means to realize
its aims the Society:
a) gathers member fees and both monetary and
non-monetary donations from friends and sympathizers of the Society (both
private persons and legal bodies)
b) holds collections and other fund-gathering
actions.
c) tries to obtain grants, subsidies and
subventions from both public and private sources(means).
d) signs
contracts with the National Health Fund
On the basis of the act of the Board the
Society may run economic activity on a scale serving to realise statutory
objectives. All the income from this activity goes to the statutory action.
ANNUAL REPORT 2007
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