Community
18 July, 2025
Milestone for Hospice in the Home
VOLUNTEERS and supporters of the Warrnambool-based Hospice in the Home program will next month celebrate 10 years.
On July 13, 2015 a ground-breaking idea was put into action when the first in-home support session was provided to a local family through Hospice in the Home.
Since then the organisation’s compassionate and dedicated volunteers have provided more than 16,000 hours of practical and emotional support to 277 local people at the end of life, and those caring for them at home.
Volunteers with the organisation recently made and decorated paper figurines as a tribute to the people whose lives they touched in a simple, but impactful way.
Each figure represents a person who has benefitted from the care and compassion that Hospice in the Home provides – and a circle of family and friends who were supported in fulfilling a loved ones wishes to remain at home.
The group is proud to have achieved the vision of Deidre Bidmade and Dr Eric Fairbank, and is grateful to everyone who has contributed to the compassionate community that makes Hospice in the Home possible.
In August the group will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Hospice in the Home and the 15th anniversary of the incorporation Warrnambool and District Community Hospice with a gathering of people who have been involved.
If you are a past volunteer, committee member, employee or someone involved in the start up of Hospice, email info@wdchospice.org.au or phone 5563 3220 to be added to the invitation list.
