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

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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?

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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. The initial funding was provided by the Bethe Family Foundation from Germany. In order to promote inpatient children’s hospices in Switzerland too, the Bethe couple have been actively represented on the foundation board since its establishment and are committed to the establishment and operation of a children’s hospice in Switzerland.

The Swiss Children’s Hospice Foundation is politically and religiously neutral and is active throughout Switzerland. An honorary, interdisciplinary foundation board manages the foundation and is supported by advisory boards from fundamental specialist areas.

Here you can find the annual report 2023/2024 of Stiftung Kinderhospiz Schweiz.

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