Fund activities in 2023:
- We continued meetings with senior women, in Municipality premises, who experienced alcohol-related violence in their lives. We helped them in daily routines, also financially (buying food, medical supplies, paying for the media). We were driving them, went shopping, helped them attend GP assignments, assisted in contacts with officials, set up birthday and holiday parties.
- We co-hosted integration meetings in Internationaler Bund Polska premises, with intellectually disabled persons, their mothers, and seniors, which included arts, physical activities and lessons of English.
- We assisted 3 persons in a Corrective Facilities in Łowicz and Nowogard by mail, phonecalls, e-parcels and canteen funds.
- We handed out Christmas food packages and clothes collected by primary school pupils to seniors and other persons in need.
- We provided support to a number of persons suffering different kind of trauma.
Fund activities in 2022:
- Throughout the year we continued meetings with senior women who experienced alcohol-related violence in their lives. We helped them in daily routines, also financially (buying food, medical supplies, warm clothing and shoes, paying for the media). We were driving them, went shopping, helped them attend GP assignments, done small repairs, assisted in contacts with officials, set up birthday parties.
- From March we co-hosted integration meetings with intellectually disabled persons, their mothers, and seniors, which included arts, physical activities and lessons of English.
- From May to the end of the year, in the Andromeda Culture Hall in Tychy we held integration weekly meetings to support refugees from Ukraine. There were activities for children, singing, and reading the Gospel of Mark together. The Ukrainians were provided emotional help and the assistance in contacts with officials.
- We assisted 4 persons in a Corrective Facilities in Kluczbork, Opole, Sierakow Slaski and Lowicz by mail, phonecalls, e-parcels and canteen funds, as well as personal development.
- We provided support to a number of persons suffering various kinds of trauma.
- Member of the Board representing the Fund appeared in Katowice District Court as a witness for our protegee. We filled out a document admitted as evidence in court through written statements of witnesses for another protegee.
- We signed contracts with Internationaler Bund Polska and Municipality to use premises in Tychy for our operation.
- Throughout the year we rented premises in Pszczyna to hold individual and group meetings, as well as to collect and hand out clothes to those in need.
- We handed out Christmas food packages collected by primary school pupils to seniors and other persons in need.
- Member of the board participated in DE’IGNIS courses to provide Christian counselling services.
Fund activities in 2021:
- We provided support to a number of persons suffering various kinds of trauma; e.g. helped development – pathways to positive change, phonecalls to persons suffering from depression, provision of the right conditions to a homeless person
- We assisted 3 persons in a Corrective Facilities in Kluczbork and Opole by mail, phonecalls, e-parcels and canteen funds as well as personal development.
- We signed a contract to hire premises in Pszczyna for statutory activities
- We continued meetings with senior women who experienced alcohol-related violence in their lives. We helped them in daily routines, also financially (buying food, medical supplies, warm clothing and shoes, paying for the media). We were driving them, went shopping, helped them attend GP assignments, done small repairs, assisted in contacts with officials, set up birthday parties and a holiday meeting.
- We collected and handed out to those in need clothes throughout the year.
- Throughout the year, we handed out food parcels
- A member of the board participated in DE’IGNIS courses to qualify to perform Christian counselling services. They involved meetings in Franciscan Monastery in Tychy. A support group of individuals with alcoholic past met every week, was assisted in looking for jobs; members were assisted financially and regular motivation talks were held – also with their family members.
Fund activities in 2020:
- Before March 2020 (COVID outbreak) we continued self-guided improvement and social therapy meetings in the Andromeda Culture Hall in Tychy with men and women in difficult life circumstances, lonely, addicted, codependent, victims of violence.
- We arranged for the ‘Face To Face’ monodrama performed by Cieszka Żóltko, based on a coproduction agreement signed with Tychy Theatre.
- Up to August 2020 we helped a person arrested in the Investigation Arrest in Jastrzębie Zdrój. Our assistance involved purchase of food, cleaning and writing supplies, calling card topups, writing letters, Skype meetings and telephone conversations, as well as driving the person home upon release.
- In September 2020 we started meetings – a few persons each, in line with Covid regulations – with senior women who experienced alcohol-related violence in their lives. We helped them in daily routines, also financially (buying food, medical supplies, warm clothing and shoes, paying for the media). We were driving them, went shopping, repaired a flat, done small repairs, assisted in contacts with officials, set up birthday parties and a holiday meeting.
- We collected and handed out to those in need clothes throughout the year.
- We handed out Christmas gifts, food packages collected for families and lonely persons in need.
- Members of the board participated in DE’IGNIS courses to be granted leave to perform Christian counselling services among mentally disturbed persons (or open up a Christian counselling centre).
Fund activities in 2019:
- For 11 months we conducted self-guided improvement and social therapy meetings in the Andromeda Culture Hall in Tychy with men and women in difficult life circumstances, lonely, addicted, codependent, victims of violence, etc. At the meetings we offered food, conversation, a show of a therapeutic film. We bought food, medicine, glasses, cleaning supplies, underwear, etc. for the participants. We helped decisions of dropping addictions, rebuilding family relations, return to a normal life. The participants heard the Scipture in films featuring testimony of persons freed from addictions, reading the Bible, and at a course of a Discovery of Christianity.
- From September we helped a person arrested in the Investigation Arrest in Mysłowice. Our assistance involved purchase of food, cleaning and writing supplies, delivery of purchases/clothes, SIM card topups, meetings in person, writing letters and telephone conversations. The assistance is to continue in 2020.
- We wrote a letter [to the City Council] thanks to which a person in need was granted social accomodation outside a bad neighbourhood; we helped the person to relocate.
- We arranged for a Christmas meeting involving singing Christmas carols.
- Members of the Board participated in DE’IGNIS courses in order to qualify for pastoral assistance to mentally disturbed persons (or start a Christian assistance outlet).
Fund activities in 2018:
- for 5 months we conducted the operation "We Help As Much As We Can" consisting of assistance to the needy who turn up at the Foundation stand erected every Wednesday from 6 June to 18 October in the Little Old Market in Tychy. As part of that operation we purchased groceries, medications, clothes and shoes, cleaning supplies, etc.; we paid rent, media, lodgings repairs and furnishings, passed off fuel, clothes, groceries, bed linen, room furnishings etc.; we wrote letters to provide the needy social benefits, a place in a queue for social lodgings, ID papers. We helped in making a decision to give up addiction, rebuild contacts with the family, go back to normal life. The needy heard the Gospel.
- we collected and handed out to those in need clothes throughout the year;
- we handed out Christmas gifts, food packages collected by primary school pupils for families and lonely persons in need;
- we managed two ALPHA courses in Tychy. We held meetings of persons who have attended these courses.
- we translated a book titled ‘Restoring the Years: Winning the Battle over Sexual Addiction and Pornography’ from English into Polish.
Fund activities in 2017:
- we purchased fuel and food vouchers to lonely persons who needed it;
- we visited, delivered food, cleaned up and ensured the needy transportation to the doctor;
- we collected and handed out to those in need clothes throughout the year;
- we provided support to a number of persons suffering different kind of trauma;
- we handed out Christmas gifts, food packages collected by primary school pupils for families and lonely persons in need;
- we provided support to a person after alcohol detoxification (visits in hospital, provision of food and accommodation, transport, accompaniment) and arranged for a continued therapy in a Christian center
- we submitted a request to the parish mayor related to a provision of a larger community housing to a family with two disabled children;
- we managed two ALPHA courses in Pszczyna. We held biweekly meetings of persons who have attended these courses.
- we signed an agreement with the Youth Culture Centre in Pszczyna for a Bible-based performance
Fund activities in 2016:
- we visited, delivered food, cleaned up and ensured the needy transportation to the doctor;
- we provided support by writing letters, prayers, and “accompaniment” on the phone to a number of persons;
- we submitted a request to the parish mayor related to the provision of a larger community housing to a family with two disabled children;
- we purchased fuel to a family who needed it;
- we paid for food as well as gas and energy bills of a lonely disabled man;
- we paid for a sworn translation of a diagnosis of another disabled man;
- we purchased and delivered Easter gifts in the Nursing-Assistance Establishment;
- we handed out Christmas gifts, food packages collected by primary school pupils for families and lonely persons in need;
- we collected and handed out to those in need clothes throughout the year;
- we arranged for 8 evangelizing meetings in Pszczyna, attended by Judge Ilona Hajewska; the audience could also consult the Judge.
- we managed Christianity Explored course in Tychy and Pszczyna as well as the ALPHA course in Pszczyna. We held biweekly meetings of persons who have attended these courses.