"How can I give something back?" Jana Müller was preoccupied with this question after grieving for her father. In the last phase of his life, he was cared for at home by the Specialised Outpatient Palliative Care team at Villa Auguste in Leipzig. Villa Auguste is a hospice that is supported by Bethel. "I was fascinated by the competence, calm, care and love with which the staff looked after my dad, who had a brain tumour," says Jana Müller. "That was also very valuable for my mum in this extremely stressful situation."
After the death of her father, Jana Müller applied to become a volunteer at Villa Auguste. "Now is the time," says the 46-year-old, "because my children are now grown up and independent." Together with the people in charge of the hospice, she came up with the idea of getting involved with her great passion: sewing. "I learnt it from my grandma, who I loved very much. Sewing brought us together and she left me her sewing machine," says Jana Müller.