The Baxter International Foundation has donated US$230,000 to Hope House in County Mayo and The Irish Hospice Foundation in Dublin.
The grants, provided by the philanthropic arm of Baxter Healthcare, a global healthcare company, will support access to healthcare across Ireland. The grant of US$110,000 to the Irish Hospice Foundation will support a pilot programme to train healthcare specialists in palliative care to expand access to non-cancer patients in Dublin. The grant of US$120,000 to Hope House will support in expanding substance abuse counselling by funding a new addictions counsellor post.
Dolores Duggan, co-director of Hope House said: “We are delighted to be the recipients of the Baxter grant and very grateful to the Baxter Foundation. This grant has afforded us the opportunity to expand and enhance our services to addicted people and their families.”
The foundation has made a number of high-profile grants to organisations in Ireland over the past 10 years. The Family Centre, Castlebar, has received two grants from the Foundation. Other former recipients of a grant from the Foundation in Ireland include Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation, Mayo Women’s Refuge Centre, and the Western Health Board.
