Beneficiaries
Hospitals we support
We equip two hospitals — in Madagascar and Palestine — because access to treatment must not depend on where you were born.
Ave Maria Hospital in Antsirabe — Madagascar
Antsirabe, Madagascar · View on the map
In the heart of Madagascar, in the city of Antsirabe, a hospital run by the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary has been operating for over 70 years. Every day it serves not only the city’s residents but more than half of the island. For many patients it is the only chance for treatment and for saving their lives.
The hospital enjoys exceptional trust: in a country where corruption is widespread, patients receive help here without bribes. What counts is the human being and their life.
For its first 61 years the facility ran only a maternity and neonatal ward and an outpatient clinic. Thanks to it, thousands of women could give birth in safe conditions, and maternal and neonatal mortality fell significantly.
Growth of the hospital
The growing needs of the local community made new wards necessary. Thanks to people of good will, two floors were added to the existing building. For many years the hospital has run four wards: maternity, internal medicine, surgery and paediatrics, with three small operating theatres. In recent years a small wing with intensive‑care stations was added.
Support from INMED and the INMED Foundation
INMED together with the INMED Foundation equipped the intensive‑care stations with bedhead medical panels and the accessories an ICU requires. The Foundation also financed a blood analyser.
The charity galas organised by INMED (2019) and the Foundation (2024) made a special contribution: thanks to the generosity of their guests and the charity auctions, funds were raised for specialist medical equipment and a new power generator — a priority given Madagascar’s unstable electricity supply.
What shared support has achieved
Today the hospital is far better equipped than just a few years ago: ultrasound and X‑ray machines, an electrocardiograph, an electroencephalograph and a fibrescope. A neonatal ward and a biological laboratory have been added. The clinic now works 24/7, admitting on average 150 patients a month, performing 90 surgeries, delivering 70 births and providing 400 outpatient consultations.
Expanding the facility and equipping it is not a luxury — it is a necessity on which quick diagnostics, effective treatment and thousands of lives depend. The needs remain enormous, and every donation is another step towards the care every human being deserves, regardless of where they were born.
The Shepherd Field Hospital — Beit Sahour, Palestine
Beit Sahour, Palestine · View on the map
One of the Foundation’s beneficiaries is The Shepherd Field Hospital — a hospital under construction in Beit Sahour, on the outskirts of Bethlehem in the Palestinian Authority. The project can change the lives of thousands of people for whom access to basic medical care is still a luxury.
The investor and future owner is the Beit Sahour Cooperative Society for Health Welfare, founded in 1959 — the first non‑profit association in the region. For over six decades its mission has been free medical care for the poor, for residents of nearby towns, for refugees and for anyone in hardship.
Today help is provided in a small 24‑hour outpatient clinic operating from two small rented buildings, serving the whole Bethlehem province of about 200,000 residents — three towns, thirty‑two villages and three refugee camps.
A hospital answering real needs
The planned hospital will have 45 beds in gynaecology‑obstetrics, surgery and intensive care wards, plus a small operating block. In a region with only 14.7 hospital beds per 10,000 residents, it is an investment of enormous importance.
It will be open to everyone. No one who crosses its threshold will be left without help — regardless of origin, religion, social status or means. Treatment here means not only health, but restoring dignity, safety and the conviction that one’s life has value.
Construction in the shadow of pandemic and conflict
Construction began with great hope, but was delayed first by the COVID‑19 pandemic and lack of funds, then halted again by the war in Gaza. The unstable security situation in the region keeps making it difficult to plan further stages and raise the funds to finish.
Where hope prevails
Despite these dramatic circumstances one thing remains unchanged — the need for a place where every person can receive medical help. For the people of Beit Sahour and the whole province, the hospital is not merely a construction project: it is a symbol of hope. The Foundation has supported this initiative for years, believing that the right to medical care should not depend on place of birth or political situation.
Our beneficiaries
Chronically and terminally ill children and young people. We support each of them by name and long‑term — funding treatment, rehabilitation, therapy and equipment.
Lidia Jabłońska
Donated: PLN 15,400 from a dedicated fundraiser
Lidia is 4 years old, diagnosed with clubfoot, camptodactyly and ulnar deviation of the fingers, with severely reduced muscle tone — she does not yet walk or speak. Genetic tests in March 2022 identified the ultra‑rare NALCN CLIFAHDD syndrome (1 in 1,000,000), responsible for congenital limb contractures, facial dysmorphia, muscular hypotonia and psychomotor delay; in October 2022 epilepsy was added to the diagnosis. Despite it all she is a joyful, energetic girl with real character. The Foundation supports her treatment, care and rehabilitation.
Franiu Zapotoczny
Rehabilitation camps 2024 & 2025 · corrective glasses
Franiu is 4. Born in the 27th week of pregnancy in a critical state (Apgar 1, 900 g), diagnosed with extreme prematurity, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, obstructive hydrocephalus (ventriculoperitoneal shunt) and anaemia of prematurity. In his first hours he suffered a grade III brain haemorrhage and later went through sepsis twice. After three months of fighting he was discharged home under home hospice care; he has since undergone gastrostomy and laser eye surgery for retinopathy of prematurity. He is fed through a PEG and needs daily rehabilitation. The Foundation took Franiu under its care in April 2024.
Joanna Gil
Comprehensive therapy equipment: PLN 4,396
Asia has been under the Foundation’s care since August 2024. She is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, which requires varied therapeutic work. Because state support is slow and often symbolic relative to needs, her parents decided to run comprehensive therapy themselves with specialist help. The Foundation financed the purchase of the therapy equipment they use with their daughter every day.
Szymon Szymborski
Annual support for treatment and rehabilitation
The Foundation finances the treatment, diagnostics and rehabilitation of 20‑year‑old Szymon, who has lived since birth with a tumour (congenital cavernous haemangioma of the right orbit), paroxysmal flaccid paresis of the lower limbs and co‑existing conditions, including missing major blood vessels in the head, periodic hyperkalemic and ischaemic paralyses and balance disorders. His mother raises him alone; treatment is long‑term and costly.
Lucjan Sołtys
PLN 38,000 — proceeds of the 2024 charity ball
In May 2022, at about 13 months old, Lucjan was diagnosed with stage IV neuroblastoma with metastases to the liver, pancreas, bones and blood. The Foundation joined the fundraiser for treatment in Barcelona, which achieved complete remission. Sadly, in March 2024 doctors made a new, dramatic diagnosis: acute myeloid leukaemia. After aggressive chemotherapy, on 19 July 2024 Lucjan received a bone‑marrow transplant at the Przylądek Dobrej Nadziei clinic in Wrocław. The entire proceeds of the 2024 charity ball went to his further treatment and rehabilitation.
Magdalena Tulikowska
Professional pulse oximeter · ongoing treatment support
At the age of 3.5, Madzia went through acute respiratory failure and bronchial asthma with massive atelectatic‑inflammatory lung changes. In 2023 she was hospitalised in intensive care and pulmonology wards in Wrocław — intubated and ventilated. After discharge, daily home monitoring of her oxygen saturation required a professional paediatric pulse oximeter, which the Foundation purchased when its price exceeded the parents’ means. The Foundation’s board decided to keep supporting her treatment.
Wiktor Żuchora
Rehabilitation camps · standing frame: PLN 3,000
Fifteen‑year‑old Wiktor has been a beneficiary since 2022. He lives with cerebral palsy — spastic diplegia — and uses an active wheelchair, walking short distances with tripod canes. Adolescence and rapid growth intensify spasticity, so Wiktor takes part in intensive rehabilitation camps which the Foundation has co‑financed. We also donated PLN 3,000 towards a standing frame: daily verticalisation stretches his muscles, reducing contractures and deformities and supporting his whole body.