The Friends’ Hospice has opened a new shop on Chlorakas Hill to enable a larger selection of furniture and household goods to be offered for sale.
Volunteers have worked through the August heat to prepare the new premises which are four doors up from the previous location. The handyman skills of these workers will be called upon again when the hospice’s new home in Tala is refurbished and modified. A Paphos architecture firm has worked free of charge to draw up the necessary plans.
As well as furniture, the new Chlorakas shop offers the usual good quality items for which the charity is renowned. There are three other charity shops – in Polis, Kato Paphos and Pissouri – helping to fund The Friends’ Hospice. Running costs for treating people with life-limiting complaints amount to more than €250,000 a year.
The proposed new home for the actual Hospice is a nine-bedroom house in a quiet Tala cul de sac, donated by a well-wishing family when the charity had to vacate its previous home in the centre of Paphos.
Since it began operations in 2006, The Friends’ Hospice has provided palliative care and other treatments to some 2,000 people of all nationalities, completely free of charge. The majority of patients suffer from cancer but care is also given to those suffering from neurological illnesses and end-stage cardiac or pulmonary sickness.
“Our volunteers work tirelessly throughout the year, devoting their time and abilities to help those who need the services of the Hospice,” says Chris Jones, President of The Friends’ Hospice Foundation. “We owe them a huge debt of gratitude.”
