The honorary Board of Trustees is made up of the following people:

Board of Trustees

• Juerg Herren (Chairman), Zurich, business economist, financial management
• Urs B. Schaad (Vice President), Basel, Professor Dr med, Emeritus, Paediatrics
• Roswitha and Erich Bethe, Cologne (Germany), Bethe Foundation
• Renate Feissli, Bern, Head of Nursing at the Foundation Paediatric Nursing School, A occupational teacher in the healthcare sector
• Marco Lanter, Zurich, Dr iur., M.C.J., lawyer
• Heinz Specker, Dübendorf, consulting, property management
• Dr Andrea Leu, Dübendorf, strategic communication

Advisory Board of the Foundation:

• Eva Bergsträsser, Zurich, PD D. med., Head of Paediatric Palliative Care, Zurich Children’s Hospital
• AlanDi Gallo, Basel Prof. Dr med. Paediatric Psychiatry, University Paediatric Hospital Basle City and the county of Basle, UKBB (Advisory Board & person of trust within the framework of the “Guidelines for the Protection of Persons in Care”) Mail
• Urs Ruoss, Zumikon, Director of Zumipark – Retirement and Nursing Home

Volunteers are essential in supporting families and helping setting up our first children’s hospice. We have been able to benefit from their help for the Davos Family Holiday Weeks for many years. A team of volunteers with local knowledge supports us so that the whole family can benefit optimally from their week of respite.

We also rely on the help of volunteers during the construction and subsequent operation of the Flamingo children’s hospice. Now, in the “set-up phase”, we are looking for volunteers to help us in the following areas:

• Online marketing, social media
• fundraising
• “On-site” activities, e.g. at market/info stands

We would be delighted to receive your application using the form below! Nicola Presti (for the foundation) and Samuel Graf (for the Flamingo children’s hospice) will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

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In order to spread the children’s hospice idea throughout Switzerland and provide information about the Flamingo Children’s Hospice and the Davos Family Holiday Weeks, we need you as a “mouthpiece”, as an ambassador for our important cause. Do you share our attitude and are convinced that Switzerland needs an inpatient children’s hospice centre? Would you like to get involved and help communicate and spread the word about our project? Can you imagine supporting us at events?

Then become an ambassador for our foundation.

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Our intern ambassadors:

Carmen Lopes Sway

The actress Carmen Lopes Sway, known as “Aunt Carmen”, brings a lot of joy and light-heartedness to the children’s everyday lives with her interactive musical children’s theatre. More

Piroska Szönye

The installation artist and painter Piroska Szönye from Chur has exhibited her works in international galleries. She has developed her own distinctive position in art. More

Kerstin Heinze-Grohmann

The artist works in the fields of painting, objects, textiles and installations, including conceptual, comic-like work and painting in combination with fragments of thread graphics. More

The foundation was established in 2009 by afflicted parents and supporters of the children’s hospice movement. It is politically and religiously neutral and operates throughout the whole of Switzerland. An honorary, interdisciplinary foundation board manages the foundation and is supported by advisory boards from fundamental specialist areas.

Here you can find the current “Annual Report 2022/2023” of the Swiss Children’s Hospice Foundation.

We are an active member of the umbrella organisation Hospices Switzerland.

Our foundation stands for innovative partnerships with companies and patrons, who support the construction and operation of the first inpatient children’s hospice in Fällanden and the expansion of the Davos Family Holiday Weeks. We build on reliable and long-term partnerships – financially, but also personally through commitment and assistance!

Become a partner:

We appoint companies as official partners of our foundation if they make a significant contribution to the realisation of our objectives with financial support of more than CHF 10,000 per year.

Your commitment has many advantages:

 Support families with children with life-limiting illnesses
 Connect your company with social values
 Increase your brand awareness and credibility
 Increase your media presence
 Inspire customers with unusual campaigns
 Strengthen your image in the long term

We offer you:

 A strong partner brand with which you can advertise
 Use of the Swiss Children’s Hospice Foundation logo as an official sponsor
 Political and denominational neutrality
 Personal advice and service
 Text, images, presentations, and project presentations for your PR

Contact us by e-mail:

Sponsors & partners of the foundation*

ELO, Digital Office

SVIT, Verband Immobilienwirtschaft

somfy, Rollladensysteme

apb architekten ag

pom+, Consulting AG

raumgleiter, 3D Visualisierung

Friends of the foundation*

Special thanks also go to our friends, helpers, and volunteers, whether in the context of the Davos Family Holiday Weeks or in the realisation of our children’s hospice.

WeRockForKids, Musik, Konzerte

Safi GmbH, google ads, digital marketing

Talent-Match, Juerg Schmid

Rafi Ghani, Moip GmbH, Social media

Simon Kaiser, EcoLogic AG, IT Support

Klein Computer System AG, Sponsoring HP Laserdrucker 577

Stefan Gubser, Schauspieler

Regula Grauwiller, Schauspielerin

Gaby Ferndriger, Verlegerin Baeschlin

… and many more friends, helpers, and supporters!

*Apologies für incompleteness.