We are strengthening the network of professionals caring for families with seriously ill children.

In July 2021, she became the Director of the Foundation. Between 1998 and 2006, she ran the Sue Ryder Home whose early stages were similar to the story of the Cibulka homestead. Until 2011, she was in charge of Sue Ryder International, spearheading projects in Europe and Africa. She has experience in negotiations at the international level, but also in Czech politics as she was a Member of Parliament and a member of the parliamentary Health and Social Policy Committee in the 1990s. She is active in patient support organisations. 

Martina joined us in June 2025 to help build direct services for children and their families. For eight years, she headed the Pečovatelské centrum Praha 7, where she focused primarily on modernizing community care for the elderly. Between 2013 and 2016, she focused on palliative care at the Cesta domů home hospice, where she led direct care services and had the unique opportunity to be at the beginning of the introduction of children's palliative care in the Czech Republic. She also worked as a mentor with the children's palliative care team at Motol Hospital. She is the founder of the Nová Trojka Family and Community Centre. She has been continuously lecturing for the České Duly, mentoring the introduction of palliative care in homes for the elderly and recently also supervision.

She is responsible for the administration of the Foundation’s CRM system, which connects the data, applications and documents the organisation works with. She has been working in the field of mass data processing ever since she graduated from the Czech Technical University. The only thing that changed over time is the type of data she managed – she started with geodetic and traffic data, but in recent years, she has been focusing on data from non-profit organizations. In addition to the Foundation, she works at Sue Ryder and occasionally for other non-profit organizations.

František Brychta is an architect. He has been involved in the construction of several beautiful and award-winning buildings in various parts of the Czech Republic – Café Fara, the church in Sazovice or the Inner Landscape Villa, to name but a few. As the project manager of Cibulka, he oversees all the construction and architectural work on the estate. He also designed the new look of the Cibulka estate and will manage the reconstruction of the gardener's house.

Since the start of the Foundation, Mirek has been in charge of communication and events for the public. Until 2015, he worked as Vodafone's Director of Communications, and subsequently, through his PR agency, he helped dozens of companies and non-profit organizations with internal and external communication. After graduating from the University of Economics in Prague in 2003, he worked for several years as a reporter at Hospodářské noviny and Aktuálně.cz. He still writes occasionally, and in 2021 he completed a book called Gramofonka, which takes a look at the world's largest vinyl records producer. 

Jana has a long-standing interest in philanthropy and has been involved in fundraising since 2008. She built and managed the communications and giving team at the Sue Ryder Home. As a mentor, she passes on her experience to leaders of various civil society organizations.

Kamila has been working as an HR specialist in the IT industry for 15 years, most recently as Head of HR at Avast, where she was also a member of the Supervisory Board of the Avast Foundation. She then moved to the non-profit sector, where she worked for 4 years on the STK pro chlapy project, which focused on male cancer prevention. At the same time, she completed a 5-year psychotherapeutic training in systemic therapy. She has her own psychotherapy practice and helps the foundation with its staffing and training needs.

Martin is in charge of finance and is responsible for the operation of the Foundation. Until 2022, he worked as a finance and administration director in ČEZ Group companies. He gained experience in financial management in the international IT environment when he worked at Electronic Arts as CFO for the CEE region. He has also devoted part of his professional life to finance in the insurance sector at Allianz and Credendo. Martin was born in Liberec and graduated from the University of Economics in Prague.

She has joined the Foundation's team to focus on the grantmaking process as part of the program team. She studied Occupational Therapy at the 1st LK Uk and then Management in Health and Social Organizations at FHS UK. After a stint at the not-for-profit company Asistence, where she ran a supported employment service, she moved to Byznys pro společnost, where she coordinated diversity activities to help set strategies and processes for employing disadvantaged groups of employees.

She became a member of the Foundation's team to work on communications, website copywriting and social media content. She has been a freelance copywriter for fifteen years, writes editorial texts, and was the editor-in-chief of the Pravý domácí magazine for two years. She expresses her creativity through photography and handcraft and is the founder of a jewellery project Macramenky. 

Lenka is one of the Foundation’s fundraisers. She has gained work experience in hotel operations management and casino chain marketing. Having volunteered at a day care centre for the mentally disabled, she did not feel like working in the non-profit sector, however, she soon changed her mind and worked for four years at Centrum Paraple as a production manager and part of the PR and FR department. She was in charge of charity projects such as Běh and Virtuální běh pro Paraple, Stardance pro Paraple, Golf pro Paraple and the summer mini-festival Sejdeme se na zahradě. As she said, working for the Foundation is a dream come true, one that she had wished for for over a year.

She has joined the Foundation as a Medical Expert to have the opportunity to contribute more to the development of children's palliative care in the Czech Republic. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Hradec Králové. She specializes in pediatrics and palliative medicine, both of which she is certified in. In addition to her work at the Foundation, she is the head doctor at the Veská Children's Centre, where she provides comprehensive care to children with serious chronic diseases and their families. She is also a leading physician and professional supervisor in the palliative care clinic of the Home Hospice of Guardian Angels in Holice. She shares her experience as a teacher at the Faculty of Health Studies of the University of Pardubice.

He holds the position of Medical Expert at the Foundation. He is a graduate of the former Faculty of Paediatric Medicine (now the 2nd Faculty of Medicine) of Charles University. His whole professional life has been focused on the care of sick children. First as a general paediatrician in a small hospital and as a district paediatrician, after his certification in paediatrics he started working at the Department of Paediatric Oncology (now the Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology) of the 2nd Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital in Prague-Motol, at the same time he is involved in the undergraduate teaching of paediatric oncology to students of the medical faculties of the Charles University and in the postgraduate education of doctors in pre-testing. In paediatric oncology he deals with tumours affecting newborns, infants and toddlers, the so-called embryonal tumours. Due to the rarity of these tumours, participation in multinational studies is necessary, which allows modern treatment even in the conditions of our country.

Petra has extensive experience in grant-making processes and strategic planning in non-profit sector institutions. At Nadace rozvoje občanské společnosti, she has been involved in managing a programme aimed at flexible and accessible funding for NGOs, strengthening the capacity of the non-profit sector and its contribution to social justice, democracy and sustainable development. At the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, she was co-leader of a new government strategy focused on NGOs.

Kateřina joined the program team in January 2025. She studied social policy and social work at Charles University and worked in social services for several years. A pivotal moment for her was a nine-month volunteer placement in Istanbul, which directed her to work on international projects. Gradually she moved to managing humanitarian and development programmes, travelling with ADRA and People in Need to Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Haiti. She has been involved in civil society development, introducing field social work in excluded localities, reconstruction after natural disasters or providing humanitarian aid in areas affected by war.

At the Foundation, Nelly manages the international EPEC Europe project focused on education in pediatric palliative care. Before joining the Foundation, she worked as a manager for economic development and advocacy activities at the American Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic, where she led legislative initiatives in areas such as healthcare, energy, and digitization. In the field of healthcare, she was involved in the creation of a communication platform for key players in oncology care and helped to promote quality indicators in the National Oncology Plan. In the past, she also led the Prague European Summit international conference and collaborated with a number of think tanks and public institutions on projects focused on open government, civil society support, and European policy.

Saša has been working in the nonprofit sector for more than twenty years. In the past, she worked at the Civil Society Development Foundation, where she was responsible for fundraising and grant program administration for 13 years. From 2017 to 2022, she worked at the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic as secretary of the Government Council for Non-Governmental Organizations. She studied political science at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University.

She graduated from the University of Economics in Prague, majoring in Business and Law. For more than ten years she worked in the field of receivables management in multinational companies, where she gained experience in the B2B and B2C sector (Modrá pyramida stavební spořitelna, Scania). After a personal experience of caring for a daughter with a rare incurable disease, she decided to professionally focus on supporting families in a similar situation. At the Foundation, she works as a community manager, in charge of caring for the caregiving community and working with patient and other non-profit organizations. Her wish is to actively contribute to the development of children's palliative care in the Czech Republic

Her professional career includes experience in both the non-profit and private sectors. She worked for several years at SIRIRI, where she initially held the position of PR coordinator and later participated in the management of the organization. She then worked in IT companies, where she gained further professional experience. She has long been involved in civic engagement and community life. For almost ten years, she has been running a neighborhood club in her hometown with cultural, social, educational, and charitable programs. She studied social and charitable work at the University of Hradec Králové. Before starting her studies, she spent a year in the Central African Republic as a volunteer with the SIRIRI organization, where she worked in a school and day care center for orphans.

Having finished her degree at the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University and having gathered experience cooperating with prominent Czech studios (e.g. Projektil), Ivana deepened her professional knowledge thanks to long-term stays abroad. She has a fine sense for detail and order, which she acquired during the years she spent working in Germany. During her stay in the Phillipines, she gained the crucial skills of improvisation and coping with stressful situations. She uses all of these to her advantage, for example in the preparation of the construction schedule and the architectural competition for Nová Cibulka and the design and reconstruction of the gardener's house.