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Vela Poland has successfully completed the “Support of the Flood-Affected Areas” project, with the final distribution taking place on February 23rd. Ten families and two collective sites with 180 and 25 residents were supported through the provision of food packages and hygiene kits. Additionally, we distributed shoes for children and school kits.Since September, our team has […]

On February 3rd and 4th, we conducted distributions in the regions of Kłodzko and Lądek Zdrój. We successfully supported a total of 470 individuals residing in six collective accommodation sites with food and hygiene items. Additionally, we provided mattresses to two collective accommodation sites, equipped ten families with essential items and food packages, and supplied new

In collaboration with @unhcrpolska, we successfully organized two distributions of family hygiene kits on January 15th and January 27th at the Freedom Embassy Community Center. To date, we have supported a total of 215 beneficiaries. The Freedom Embassy Community Center is operated by Vela and Freedom Space Foundation, located at Osiedle Ogrodowe 15, 31-916 Kraków.

On December 10 and 11, Vela Poland management team held training sessions on Operational Policies, Protection and Child Protection Safeguarding SoPs for HOPE FOUNDATION management and volunteers. Our mission is to empower others by sharing our expertise in establishing effective policies and procedures, offering training and support, and collaboratively developing impactful interventions. “A sincere and

Our child protection experts from Vela Foundation provided child protection and safeguarding training to our colleagues at Vela Foundation and our partner foundation Kocham Debniki. We organized the trainings in Krakow and Warsaw where our colleagues learned how to identify and refer vulnerable children as well as child safeguarding procedures. In return, our Greek child

Our team has been operating at Modlinska refugee reception site since August. Our team supports children and their families to overcome the trauma and the stress during their stay there.

We are initiating a mobile psychosocial support intervention for refugees of Ukraine in Warsaw with the support of our donor Choose Love. Refugees in reception sites and other accommodation facilities will have access to social worker and psychologist services. 

Our success in Warsaw was followed by a natural drive to expand our activities. We have set up a team in Krakow to double the psychosocial support operation in the country. Refugees in the Krakow wider metro area will have access to social worker and psychologist services.