WE INTEGRATE INTO THE COMMUNITY

We provide comprehensive support to diverse refugee groups scattered across the country, with a particular focus on those at risk of marginalization.

Our foundation, together with Mercy Corps and the American Red Cross, has helped thousands of war refugees. Beneficiaries of this multi-stage project include women and children, as well as groups at risk of marginalization, including older people, people with disabilities, LGBTQI+ people, people experiencing trauma, people with mental health problems, victims of gender-based violence (GBV) and victims of sexual violence.

Our comprehensive support ranges from refugees already separated to those living in collective accommodation, to communities hosting war refugees from Ukraine.

The project aims to provide refugees with decent living conditions, rebuild their sense of security, and integrate them with Poles.

We carry out our activities:

– stationary in the integration centers in Opole and Warsaw and the legal center in Warsaw

– through mobile groups, which diagnose the needs of residents in centers located far from agglomerations and provide them with specialist care

– Online: by providing consultations and practical and relevant information to beneficiaries through social media.

We provide:

– Psychological support (crisis support, trauma therapy; individual sessions, and group therapy)

– Assistance in starting education in Poland (help with enrolment in schools/universities/vocational courses)

– Information support (meetings about the realities of life in Poland: labor market, rental market, social assistance)

– Legal support (legalization of residence in Poland, consultation on concluding contracts for the lease of flats, setting up temporary custody of children who have come from Ukraine without parents or who have lost their parents or legal guardians)

– Social assistance and distribution of financial vouchers

– Polish language courses (in-house and online)

– Art therapy classes for women and seniors: drawing and painting workshops, singing workshops, handicrafts workshops

– Vocational/professional counseling, socio-economic support, and activation

– Cultural and integration events