Martin Souček
Congratulations on your IRONMAN 70.3 Hradec Králové!
Hundreds of people helped you on your way to the finish line this year. At one of the aid stations, you may also have met the Domestici team – a community that connects sport with support for palliative and hospice care.
We handed you water, sports drinks and refreshments, and cheered you on for the kilometres ahead.
Now you can pass that support on.
Domestici support hospices across the Czech Republic. This year, one of them is Charita Hradec Králové Home Hospice Care – right here, in the region where you raced.
Just as a domestique in sport helps a teammate make it to the finish line, a hospice team supports a person and their family through one of the most difficult stages of life.
This time, become a domestique for someone else.
Support palliative care with a donation of any amount and add one more meaningful result to your race in Hradec Králové.
Or turn every kilometre you raced in Hradec Králové into a donation and give each one an extra purpose.
Who does this fundraiser help?
See exactly where your support is going.
Domestici.cz connects sport, solidarity, and support for palliative care in the Czech Republic. We bring together active people who care about how our loved ones live — and how they leave this world. Together, we help ensure that the end of life can be calm, dignified, and spent close to those who matter most.
Why is palliative care important?
Palliative care helps people with incurable illnesses live quality lives until the very end — without unnecessary pain, in safety, and with support provided not only to them, but also to their loved ones.
- In the Czech Republic, approximately 70,000 people need palliative care today.
- Yet 40% of people don’t even know what palliative care means.
We believe that no one should be left alone, in pain, or in fear at the end of life.
What do we do as Domestici.cz?
We are building a community of people who speak openly and respectfully about palliative care — and who actively support it.
- We organize awareness-raising events.
- We connect people through challenges and personal stories.
- We provide financial support to hospices and organizations that develop palliative care across the Czech Republic.
The project was born out of the founder Martin Souček’s passion for ultra-cycling. In 2024, he linked his participation in the Race Across America with support for palliative care. And around this idea, a community of “Domestiques” gradually grew — a community of people who help others.
How exactly will your donations help?
All funds raised will be distributed among outstanding organizations that are advancing palliative care in the Czech Republic, specifically:
- The Forum of Mobile Hospices, helping make palliative care more accessible
- The Center for Palliative Care, which provides education and awareness for healthcare professionals across the system as well as for the public
- Hospice Athelas Písek
- Hospice Care of sv. Kleofáše Třeboň
- Home Hospice of sv. Zdislavy Třebíč
- Hospice of sv. Alžběty Brno
- Home Hospice Barborka Žďár n. Sázavou
- Home Hospice Care – Charity Hradec Králové
- Hospice Tempus Mělník
- Hospice of Dobrého Pastýře Čerčany
Become a Domestique!
Anyone can get involved — in a way that suits their possibilities:
- Donate any amount.
- Create your own fundraising challenge at the bottom of this page and involve people around you! Connect Domestici.cz with your sporting challenge, event, or personal story.
You don’t have to be an athlete. All you need is the desire to be there for others.
Thank you for helping change the way we accompany people at the end of life in the Czech Republic.
The Domestici.cz Team
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Donation appeals from 2025
Donation appeals from 2024
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The Domestici.cz project is carried out based on a public challenge initiated by Martin Souček, in contractual cooperation with the organization Domestici pro pomoc druhým z.s. For this reason, your personal data may be shared — strictly to the necessary extent and exclusively for the purpose of project administration — with Domestici pro pomoc druhým z.s. This includes thank-you messages, analysis of the project's impact, further communication regarding the project, its results, and opportunities for continued support, as well as fundraising activities related to the project.