> To recruit and capacitate volunteers who will assist in providing Hospice and Palliative Care. > To provide Quality and Holistic Hospice and Palliative Care. > To empower families actively care for their seriously ill relatives includingcoming to terms with their challenges that they are facing > To provide an avenue for professional development and growth in the field of the Hospice and Palliative Care. > To generate adequate resources to guarantee sustainability of the foundation.
<h4> </h4><h4> </h4><h4> </h4><h4>Madre de Amor Hospice Foundation, Inc. is a non-stock, non-profit organization founded in 1994 at Los Baños, Laguna by a group of entrepreneurs and relatives of cancer victims. The ideas was to complement the efforts of formal medical institutions to care for the seriously-ill whose needs are different from patients with curable disease. Madre de Amor operates under the dictum that " when cure is no longer possible, there is no end to the care and love we extend to our seriously-ill patients". Because of this belief, Madre de Amor does not only provide assistance to the seriously - ill patients through the administration of simple nursing care, but more importantly, extend psychological, mental and especially, spiritual support to their relatives.</h4><p>Madre de Amor provides its services free of charge to its mostly indigent patient. A Board of Trustees sets the vision and policy direction for the organization. On a day-to-day basis, it is run by a medical director who serves as its Executive Director, supported by a licensed nurse, a social worker, admin staff and a core of more than 30 volunteers who conduct regular visits to to the patients and their relatives providing psychological, moral and spiritual support to them. Volunteers undergo training before being deployed for home visits. Madre de Amor had published two books to document its experiences in administering to the needs of seriously-ill patients and their relatives, and the rich experiences in administering to the needs of seriously- ill patients and their relatives, and the rich experiences of its volunteers to serve as a handy reference for other communities wanting to establish their on local hospice.</p><h4>Madre de Amor is accredited by the Philippine Council for NGO Certification and was recognized by the Department of Social Welfare and Development Region IV-A Office as Social Work Agency p[er Administrative Order No. 17 series of 2008.</h4><p>Madre de Amor is the longest existing community-based hospice organization in the country and because of the immense knowledge, skills and experiences it accumulated throughout its long years of its operations, its Executive Director and staff have been invited to serve as resource persons for other communities or medical institutions wanting to establish their own hospice. Among them were groups in Lucena and Tayabas in Quezon, bel Air in Makati, St Louis University in Baguio, Davao, Pampanga and Binan in Laguna.</p>