The Gergina Foundation visits Maggie’s Houses in West London

Фондация Гергина посещава Къщите Maggies в Западен Лондон

In June 2023, we visited the Maggie’s West London house of cancer care. Maggie’s is a UK-based network offering a restorative space and psychosocial support to people at different stages of treatment and living with cancer, and to their loved ones.

Running under the motto ‘everyone’s home for cancer care’, the network offers a response to a rapidly growing need. In the space of a decade, it has blossomed to more than 25 such houses operating in the UK. In the last years, branches have opened in Spain, Japan, China, and there are plans to extend the network’s presence to Norway and the Netherlands.

We were able to spend an afternoon in the West London Maggie’s, meeting with local staff and leadership, and attending some of the group processes on offer, and experiencing the support available to people to maintain hope and joy of life in the face of the fear of death.

We received wonderful inspiration for the Gergina Heal House that we are planning for on Bulgarian soil – the good practices that it is possible and necessary to transfer and create in our country, but also the stretch that is still needed to bring us to the next level of holistic human care that we can aspire to.

You can read the full story and article in Bulgarian here.