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Our activities in Poland focus on helping children and youth from foster care faciliities and family homes. We provide access to therapeutic and medical help, as well as educate at various stages of development - from expanding basic knowledge, to self-development and professional development.

Foster care in Poland

More than 70 thousand children in polish foster care system are partially of entirely deprived of natural parental care.

The structure of Polish foster care divides into: parental form (foster families and foster homes), and institutional form (foster care institutions). The stats from 2020 show that 55,5 thousand children found shelter in family care, and 16 thousand in institutional care. Our Foundation supports both foster care facilities as well as foster families throughout Poland.

Our direct support

2019

The beginning of
acive help

2 973

Children
we helped

194

Support for institutions
and foster families

Ongoing projects

We respond to the needs of children and adolescents in the most important areas of their functioning. The core of our support is to provide both education and medical/ psychological help. Another element is access to knowledge - we educate at various levels to give each child a chance for a better future. We also believe that helping to improve the competences of guardians enriches the quality of care and children’s functioning. We equip facilities and foster families in electronic equipment and computers needed for remote education.

Education and brighter future

e-learning platform skillplanet.io

We created a free e-learning platform dedicated to foster care in Poland. It is a virtual space for learning that lets the users to deepen knowledge and build motivation for a constant development.

Virtual tutoring

We plan to conduct a virtual tutoring program for children from foster care. It will be helpful for those who need to breech knowledge gaps as it comes to school subjects.

Stay tuned for more information!

Webinars and conferences

Foster care is about the people – caregivers, social workers, psychologists, educators, foster parents. With them in mind, we develop a space for gaining specialist knowledge and improving adult’s competences in caring for foster children.

Programming courses

We teach to write code and create virtual products – it is a chance to gain both knowledge and experience in software development. We organize free programming courses for adolescents from foster care.

Frontend Academy

Free educational program that guarantees full-time programming course, with a chance for accommodation and employment. The Frontend Academy supports a significant stage in self-emp-owerment and gaining independence of young people who are 18+ years old.

Medical and psychological care

Support in rehabilitation
or therapy

We support foster parents and caregivers in efforts to improve the health of children who suffer from serious diseases. We co-finance rehabilitation stays, treatment, and psychological therapies.

Biofeedback Therapy

We give children in need the access to EEG Biofedback therapeutic sessions. A complex support lies in organising certified courses for therapists and providing necessary equipment and software for the

Mental health center

In Wrocław we will build a special centre where specialists will be able to provide professional therapeutic and psychological support for children and adolescents from foster care.

EMDR Therapy

EMDR is an eye movement desensitization and processing therapy. It is an established method of treating trauma and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. We co-finance EMDR therapy for the most experienced children that are under our foundation’s care.

Snoezelen - multi sensory treatment

Snoezelen therapy (Multi Sensory Environment) is a method that aims at stimulating child’s senses, relaxing muscles and giving emotional calm. We provide it to support the psychophysical development of the youngest children.

Improving living conditions

IT equipment

We equal the chances of children in the access to IT equipment and eliminate digital exclusion. We provide foster facilities and families with IT equipment that is necessary in online learning or maintaining relations with peers.

Equipping foster care facilities

In the years 2019-2021, we provided facilities and foster families with the necessary everyday equipment, such as: household appliances, audio / video devices, furniture. We also took care of the retrofitting common rooms, playrooms and children’s rooms.