Support to MOMO, Vienna’s mobile hospice and palliative team for children

It is our privilege to announce that this year, our programme WE CARE is supporting MOMO, Vienna’s mobile hospice and palliative team for children, in a drive to help critically ill children and adolescents.

Being diagnosed with a life-limiting disease is traumatising for a child and it impacts the entire family. Affected families are faced with numerous challenges and living together at home is often impossible without professional care. The MOMO team supports affected families in their familiar surroundings, in keeping with their needs and free of charge, providing them with both medical and psychosocial assistance.

Since its inception in March 2013 the MOMO team has provided extensive care to more than 200 critically ill children and their families at their homes. Help is tailored to the needs of each family, depending on the care required.

MOMO takes care of children and adolescents aged 0-18 with life-threatening or life-limiting conditions. They suffer from metabolic diseases, heart, kidney, neurological or muscular conditions, cancer or the consequences of accidents.

If required, MOMO supports affected families from the moment of diagnosis, for weeks, months or even for many years, until the children pass away, and beyond.

The multi-disciplinary work of the MOMO team is 100% donation-funded.

For more information, please go to: www.kinderhospizmomo.at

In 2015 we launched the programme WE CARE in order to help people in need. Through hands-on activities, monetary donations and donations in kind, we regularly support various projects suggested by staff members.