"To overcome prejudice" is a training film made by Hospice Foundation within the WHAT programme. The programme's aim was to start prisoners voluntary service in Polish hospices. The aim has been achieved and 9 new hospices started to work with volunteers from behind the bars. The film below shows how a hospice may organise a cooperation with a penitentiary institution and benefit from inmates' voluntary service.

The WHAT programme (full name: Hospice Voluntary Service as a Tool of Acceptance and Tolerance Learning Tool among Prisoners) has been initiated by Fundacja Hospicyjna (Hospice Foundation), a foundation that supports over 100 hospices in Poland. The programme is based on the experiences of Gdansk's Father E. Dutkiewicz Hospice, that is a pioneer of hospice-prison coopeation in Poland. The hospice has been cooperating with Gdansk Przerobka Penitentiary Institution since 2002. Primarily, the inmates helped by construction works of Voluntary Service Center, but after some time they started to help directly by hospice patients.

If you want to learn more about the prisoners' voluntary service or WHAT programme, feel free to contact us by e-mail (fundacja@hospicja.pl) or by phone (0048 58 340 6115).