Foundation Shelter for Health

A bed beside their hospital.
Always free.

When a child needs months of treatment far from home, the family should not have to sleep in a car. We build hospitality houses next to hospitals across Europe — so no one ever has to choose between care and a place to rest.

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12,400+ Free Nights
Provided in 2025
8 Hospitality
Houses in Europe
47 Hospital Partners
Across 6 Countries
€2,400 Average Saved
Per Family Stay
A quiet, sunlit family room inside a Shelter for Health house
The Mission

Healing rarely happens
in a single room.

A serious diagnosis travels with an entire family. Parents who refuse to leave their child's side. Spouses who drive seven hours to a specialist clinic. Patients who must return weekly for treatments their local hospital cannot provide.

For these families, the cost of care is rarely just the medical bill. It is the hotel near the hospital. The meals eaten in cafeterias. The job hours lost to the road. We exist to take that second weight off their shoulders — so the only thing that matters is healing.

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How We Help

Three promises we keep
to every family.

A real home, free of charge

Private rooms. Shared kitchens. Quiet libraries. Children's play spaces. Designed by hospitality architects, run with the warmth of a guesthouse — never a charity.

Steps from the hospital

Every house is within a five-minute walk of its partner hospital. Treatments at dawn, family dinners at dusk, no taxis between — that proximity is the gift.

Held by people who know

Our house managers are nurses, social workers, and former families themselves. They cook a meal. They listen. They translate the bewildering. No paperwork at the door.

For four months we lived ten minutes from our daughter's bone-marrow ward — in a room with a window, sheets that smelled of lavender, and other parents at the kitchen table at midnight. Without Shelter for Health, we would have lost our home.
— Marta & Henrik, Stockholm
Their Stories

Behind every bed, a family.

A mother sitting with her child
Pediatric Oncology · Lyon

Six months, ten minutes apart.

When little Léa needed protocol treatment 480 km from home, her parents came too — and stayed in our Lyon house through every chemotherapy cycle. They never missed a morning round.

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An elderly man being cared for
Cardiac Care · Milan

Weekly dialysis. No more sleeping in the car.

Anwar travelled 200 km for dialysis three times a week. For two years, he slept in his car the nights before. Now he sleeps in a bed and walks to his appointment.

Read Anwar's story
A family in a sunlit kitchen
Transplant Recovery · Barcelona

The kitchen that became a community.

Three families. Three different illnesses. One long shared kitchen table. They became a support group no doctor could have prescribed — and they still meet, years later.

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An Annual Tradition

The Lumina Gala
& Masters' Auction.

One night each year, the great houses of European art lend their masterpieces to a single cause. A black-tie evening. A live auction. Every euro raised funds another year of free shelter.

Next Edition
22 November 2026
Venue
Palais Garnier, Paris
Auction Paddle
$1,000,000 USD
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A single night of shelter costs €38.

A family's stay costs about as much as a holiday. Yours, instead, would change a life.

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