We are a Hospice Home Care providing holistic care for terminally – ill children, including those not yet born. Our team consists of more than 120 people – including medical staff, psychologists, and clergy – who have many years of experience in caring for hospice patients, as well as their parents and siblings. We have been providing therapeutic activities since April 2016.
We are currently taking care of more than 140 young patients from Lower Silesia and are the largest unit of this type in the province. Because our activities cover a large area, we have organized a network of branches operating, among others, for the regions of Jelenia Góra, Wałbrzych, Zgorzelec, Kłodzko, Chojnów, Świebodzice and Legnica, which ensure safety and short travel times to reach children living at a great distance from Wrocław.
Together with hospitals in Lower Silesia, including the University Clinical Hospital in Wrocław and the Provincial Specialist Hospital in Wrocław, we run a perinatal hospice – a place which supports families who find out about their child’s terminal illness during pregnancy.
Meet our team
Management

Krzysztof Szmyd, MD
Chairman of the Board, Head of the Hospice for Children of Lower Silesia
Pediatrician and palliative medicine specialist. Graduate of the Wrocław Medical University, MD since 2003. Since 2003, he has been associated with the hospice, and since 2006, he has been serving as its head. Since 1996, he has been working at the Clinic of Bone Marrow Transplantation, Oncology and Children’s Hematology in Wrocław. Won many prestigious awards including the 2013 Forbes Professionals Public Trust Award in the Lower Silesian Doctors category. In 2016, he received an honorable mention in the Extraordinary Lower Silesians 2016 Competition – Akcja Akacja, Akcja Dąb. In 2017, he was rewarded with the Mayor of Wrocław Award. He authored many scientific publications presented at national and international conferences.
My kind words: “I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” – Ezekiel 36

Anna Gil-Gumowska
Vice President of the Management Board, Psychologist
My kind words: “If there is a goal, a way has to be found.” – Andrzej Sapkowski

Piotr Szota
Vice President of the Management Board
My kind words: “Smile!”
Doctors

Mirosław Castelli
Doctor
My kind words: “Don’t postpone anything!”

Agnieszka Jalowska
Doctor
My kind words: “There’s a way to do it better – I’ll find it.” Thomas A. Edison
Dorota Bojanowska
Doctor, Wałbrzych branch
My kind words: “Children are my engine and driving force. Without them, life has no flavor or color.”
Barbara Czyszczoń-Kwaśnik
Doctor
My kind words: “Whatever you do, do it with love.” – Ovid
Beata Kowalczyk
Doctor
My kind words: “Sometimes the presence alone is enough.” – Unknown author
Jacek Polański, MD
Doctor
My kind words: “One day, the way we talk to the children will become their own voice. So let’s be careful.” – Peggy O’Mara
Elżbieta Wojciechowska
Doctor
My kind words: “Ora et labora” (Pray and work) – St. Benedict
Kamila Zyzak
Doctor
My kind words: “Trust wholeheartedly in the Lord rather than relying on your own intelligence. In everything you do, acknowledge him, and he will see that your paths are straight.” – Prov 3,5-6
Beata Kociuba
Doctor, Jelenia Góra branch
Graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz. A specialist in family medicine, a 1st degree specialist in pediatrics, and a specialist in medical rehabilitation. Many years of experience in a primary healthcare clinic and in children’s rehabilitation and pulmonary rehabilitation wards.
My kind words: “The more I get to know people, the more I love animals.” – G. Bernard Shaw
Katarzyna Rzepka-Dawiskiba
Doctor, Jelenia Góra branch
My kind words: “There are two types of happiness in the world: one small – to be happy, the other great – to make others happy.” – J. Tuwim
Aleksandra Mazur
Doctor, Wałbrzych branch
My kind words: “It’s good to live, but it’s even better to live well.” – Socrates
Dorota Słoniewska-Kudłacik
Doctor, Wałbrzych branch
My kind words: “We will cross this bridge together when we get to it.”
Izabela Kurzyńska
Doctor, Zgorzelec branch
My kind words: “A good word heals sorrow.” – Menander
Nurses

Barbara Łukasiewicz
Nurse
My kind words: “Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.” – Proverbs 16:24
Piotr Kaśków
Male nurse
My kind words: “Build bridges, not walls”, Enver Djuliman and Lillian Hjort
Iwona Kubicz
Nurse
My good words: “The good must be shared so that it multiplies.” – Unknown author
Ilona Kulik
Nurse
My kind words: “To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.” – Cicero
Grzegorz Łubkowski
Male nurse, Jelenia Góra branch
My good words: “What is supposed to be, will be, and when it comes, one needs to face it.”
Krystyna Otlewska
Nurse
Graduate of the Medical College in Gdynia and of 3-year university studies in law and public administration. Post-graduate studies in Healthcare Unit Management. She completed numerous training courses in palliative care for children. Since 2005, she has been associated with the children’s hospice.
My kind words: “Live the same life, over and over again, eternally.” – Nietzsche
Katarzyna Rudnicka
Nurse
My kind words: “The best time to do good is immediately.” – St. Catherine of Siena
Irena Senderowska
Nurse
My good words: “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.” – Romans 12:21
Paweł Szlaga
Male nurse
My good words: “You don’t have to be a Catholic to be a good person” – Fr. Jan Kaczkowski
Iwona Wilczyńska
Nurse
My good words: “To offer, means to give to another what one would prefer to keep for themselves” – Unknown author
Monika Wołowiec
Nurse
MSc in nursing with 25 years of experience, specialist in epidemiological nursing, completed Managerial Postgraduate Studies at Wroclaw University of Economics. She has qualification course in the field “Palliative nursing for nurses” and in the field “Anaesthesiologic nursing and intensive care for nurses”. She has been involved with “Formula Dobra” since 2021. She gains her experience with working with children in the Department of Immunology, Bone Marrow Transplantation and Gene Therapy at the “Cape of Good Hope” Clinic.
My good words: “Only when I think of the sun, my soul will shine.
Only when my soul shines, the Earth will become a star.
Only when the Earth becomes a star, I will be a real man.”
Klaudia Woźniak
Nurse
My kind words: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Marta Kliczkowska
Nurse, Jelenia Góra branch
My kind words: “Do or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda
Adam Kliczkowski
Male nurse, Jelenia Góra branch
My kind words: “Always look on the bright side of life.” – Monty Python
Marzena Kujda
Nurse, Kłodzko branch
My kind words: “How you see the world shows who you are, what you think and what matters to you.” – Unknown author
Iza Torba
Nurse, Wałbrzych branch
My good words: “I know that I am needed, that someone is waiting for me, that what I am doing makes sense.” – Izabela Torba
Roksana Wesołowska
Nurse, Wałbrzych branch
My kind words: “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. ” – Vivian Green
Beata Wojdyło
Nurse, Zgorzelec branch
My kind words: “Don’t be afraid to find happiness even if you have to look for it in the sand on the beach.” – Author unknown
Psychologists

Dorota Błażewicz
Psychologist, Support Group
Graduate of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin and Psychology at the SWPS University. She also completed postgraduate studies in Neuropsychology at SWPS, Pedagogical Preparation at the University of Lower Silesia, and the School of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy at the Krakow Psychodynamic Center. She gained professional experience working in a mental health clinic, in community psychiatry and in inpatient and home adult hospices.
My kind words: “Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.” – St. Augustine

Alicja Kaśków
Psychologist
MA in Psychology at the University of Wrocław. She also graduated from a crisis intervention study and from a solution-focused therapy course. She participated in training on working with oncology patients and she completed a first-degree training in Rational Behavior Therapy. She worked as a psychologist within the Academy for Fighting Cancer program. Her career path has been related to the children’s hospice from the early days. She has been working with terminally ill children and their families since 2009 – first as a volunteer, then as a psychologist.
My kind words: ”We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen more and talk less.”
Agata Ostrasz
Psychologist
My kind words: My kind word: “A human is great not by what they possess but by what they are; not by what they have but by what they share”. John Paul II
Physiotherapists
Adrianna Solińska
Physiotherapist
My kind words: “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
Agnieszka Wereszczyńska
Physiotherapist
My kind words: “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain” – Mahatma Gandhi
Perinatal hospice

Agnieszka Jalowska
Doctor, perinatal hospice
My kind words: “There’s a way to do something better… I’ll find it.” Thomas A. Edison

Agnieszka Pasławska
Psychologist, perinatal hospice
My good words: “All we are given are possibilities to make ourselves one thing or another.” – José Ortega y Gasset
Katarzyna Urbaniak
Nurse, perinatal hospice
My kind words: “The most beautiful gift of God is another human. How important it is to just BE”.
Chaplain

Tomasz Filinowicz
Chaplain
My good words: “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” – 2 Corinthians 12:1-13
Administrative team

Ewa Janowicz
Volunteer Coordinator, Communication Specialist
My kind words: “Good people are happy!” – Socrates

Dorota Mazur
Fundraising Specialist, Board Representative, currently on parental leave
My kind words: “You must demand of yourselves, even if others would not demand of you.” – John Paul II
Agnieszka Prejbisz
Chief Financial Accounting Specialist. Medical Equipment Specialist
MA in International Relations at the University of Economics in Wrocław, specializing in Foreign Trade. A graduate of Accounting postgraduate studies at the University of Economics. For 10 years, she has been gaining accounting experience in commercial companies, and for 6 years she has been taking care of accounting and procurement of medical material and equipment at a children’s hospice. An effective negotiator and a specialist in building interpersonal relationships.
My kind words: “The kindness of the heart is like the warmth of the sun: it gives life.” – Henryk Sienkiewicz

Agnieszka Więckiewicz
Occupational Health and Safety Specialist, Administrative Specialist
Katarzyna Kotowska
Medical Documentation Specialist
My kind words: “The best time to do good is immediately.” – St. Catherine of Siena
Robert Pelczar
Car Fleet Specialist
My kind words: “We need to measure man with the measure of the heart.” – John Paul II
Anna Gregori
HR and Cash Settlement Specialist
Graduate of the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. Participant of the ERASMUS program at the Università di Perugia in Italy. She completed her post-graduate studies in Human Resources Management at the WSB University in Wrocław. She has professional experience in corporate HR and payroll structures. She has been associated with the Hospice since 2017.
My kind words: “When God closes a door, He opens a window.” – Fr. Jan Twardowski
Agnieszka Ładyżyńska
Project specialist
A graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wrocław. MA in Sociology, specializing in social services. She completed postgraduate studies in Family Sciences at PWT in Wrocław, one-year Family Therapy Study at the Lower Silesian Psychotherapy Center, and a basic and advanced course in Solution Focused Therapy. She participated in training in project writing, PR in NGOs, and project management. From the beginning of her professional career, she has been associated with NGOs in Wrocław. At the hospice since 2018.
My kind words: “When we stop dreaming, our soul dies.” – D. Loreau
Revision Committee
Maciej Hildebrand
My kind words: “You must be in good cheer!” – Maciej Hildebrand
Anna Pelczar
My good words: “If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.” – Jas 4:17
Maciej Widawski
My kind words: “We are building too many walls and not enough bridges.”