On January 17, the first children's hospice "Firefly World" was launched in Georgia. The children's hospice is a family-type facility, which will provide palliative care for children with chronic and incurable illnesses. The hospice will work in three basic directions: 24-hour service for simultaneously 10 children and their parents; daytime center, where children and their parents will stay from morning to evening to receive necessary services; home care service, which exists for already one year and which provides services to 26 children, will continue to operate. Construction of the children's hospice was launched in October 2015 and built started in February 2016 upon the initiative of Open Society Georgia Foundation, with the initial funding of Evex Medical Corporation as well as with the support of the President's fund. Since then, hundreds of donors, among them ordinary citizens and business companies, expressed readiness to support the hospice. Over GEL 1 million was raised during a year to build the hospice. The project of children's hospice is the best example of cooperation between business companies, non-governmental sector, the President, journalists and citizens. The Tbilisi Children's Hospice meets the standards of the world's best hospices. Besides professional and attentive personnel, the environment, interior, name of the hospice and all those details, which largely determine children's life in the hospice, are extremely important. The Tbilisi Children's Hospice will begin receiving patients from the next week