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Help our efforts to support Ukraine

From the first days of the war in Ukraine we have been helping both in the territory of Ukraine and in Poland. We manage to reach effectively people and groups particularly affected by the humanitarian crisis and the war. In our activities we use the experience of a social organisation as well as our involvement in organising humanitarian and development aid in different regions of the world.

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What we do:

  • We send professional equipment and dressings used by Ukrainian medical services in war zones and hospitals.
  • We run the Ukrainian School for 270 students in Warsaw.
  • We carry out and support evacuations of orphanages for children with disabilities from the territory of Ukraine.
  • We organise free therapeutic and respite camps for children of wounded and fallen soldiers who live permanently in Ukraine.
  • We organise holidays free-of-charge for children from Ukraine. In summer in the form of hiking and kayaking camps or "Summer in the city" activities, and in winter - in the form of sports camps in the mountains.
  • In cooperation with BUR (Building Ukraine Together) we help with apartment renovations for domestic refugees in Ukraine.
  • We carry out encounters with art at the National Museum for children and parents from Ukraine.

What we have done:

We have evacuated or supported the evacuation of over 750 people from the territory of Ukraine. More than half of them are people with disabilities.

Since the first days of the war, we have been looking for homes for refugees. We have created a database of 170 apartments and supported hosts who provided accommodation.

We launched an intervention hostel with accommodation and meals for refugees who do not have Ukrainian citizenship. The government support programs did not concern those people. We lodged almost 700 refugees of over 40 nationalities.

We have sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine - over 200 tons of food, dressings and professional medical equipment.

Up till the end of the school year 2021/22 we ran after-school centres for children - Afternoons. Over 200 people - children, their mothers and grandmothers took advantage of afternoon classes for children conducted by volunteers in 4 Warsaw schools.

We have opened "SzkoUA" in Warsaw - a school for students from Ukraine, where refugee children can learn on-site in their native language. Currently, 270 students are attending it. The school was established within 24 days on the initiative of KIK and in cooperation with many organisations.

We organised summer holiday for children from Ukraine. 320 children participated in camps free of charge.

Over 800 children took part in the day camps in Warsaw.

We organised an open-air icon-writing workshop attended by painters from Ukraine, and we are holding an auction of the created works to help organise trips for children from Ukraine.

70 children and 20 mothers took part in therapeutic and respite camps for families of fallen and wounded Ukrainian soldiers.

Our activities have been supported by over 700 volunteers.

More than 1,000 donors - individuals and organisations - have supported our work for Ukraine.

Club of Catholic Intelligentsia and Ukraine

Club of Catholic Intelligentsia is an organization founded in 1956. It gathers around 2000 members whose objective is to serve the common good. KIK’s initiatives, apart from intellectual and spiritual formation, are pursued in 4 main areas: Humanitarian and development aid and other aid activities (projects funded by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs or by American USAID carried out in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine; humanitarian aid at the Polish-Belarusian border);Education and upbringing (leading peer groups based on scouting-like rules for over 700 children and teenagers);Social initiatives in Poland (cooperation with minorities in Poland, creation of the first in Poland support helpline for people abused in Church); Development of the civil society in Eastern Europe (support for independent school system in Belarus, care for

Club of Catholic Intelligentsia is an organisation founded in 1956. It gathers around 2000 members whose objective is to serve the common good. KIK’s initiatives, apart from intellectual and spiritual formation, are pursued in 4 main areas: Humanitarian and development aid and other aid activities (projects funded by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs or by American USAID carried out in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine; humanitarian aid at the Polish-Belarusian border);Education and upbringing (leading peer groups based on scouting-like rules for over 700 children and teenagers);Social initiatives in Poland (cooperation with minorities in Poland, creation of the support helpline for people abused in Church - the first such in Poland); Development of the civil society in Eastern Europe (support for independent school system in Belarus, care for the children affected by the conflict in the east of Ukraine).

KIK’s engagement in helping Ukraine

Since 2014 KIK has been particularly involved in helping the Ukrainian society. During the so-called Dignity Revolution (2014) KIK delivered specialist equipment for field hospitals, personal protective equipment and financial support, as well as the support for the injured who were transported to Polish hospitals. For 8 years KIK has been regularly organising therapeutic and recreation camps for children from the families who suffered from the war in Eastern Ukraine. Several hundred children and teenagers have benefited. KIK has also been leading the projects supporting young Ukrainian artists, organised specialist workshops for educators working with refugee families in Ukraine. Ukrainian hospitals were equipped and the doctors were trained also on the KIK’s initiative. Thanks to all those activities KIK has a broad base of verified partners in the territory of Ukraine in the fields of education, culture and empowering the civil society.
We have been cooperating with Ukrainian Ministry of National Defence, local governments and hospitals’ management representatives. The members of KIK were frequently rewarded for their involvement by the representatives of Ukraine’s and Poland’s authorities. Support after the outbreak of war in Ukraine
We have broad experience in managing aid activities that are based on verified needs. We have at our disposal all the contacts, motivated volunteers and Polish and foreign partners well-experienced in multiple fields. Thus we are able to bring help from the very beginning of the Russian aggression in Ukraine. Our efforts focus on the particular fields that at the present time seem most important to us. At the beginning it was support in evacuation from the war-affected areas, humanitarian aid and providing basic needs of refugees. Currently we are focusing on the aspects that we consider exceptionally important for the future of Ukraine, such as:

  • providing education and care for children and teenagers
  • assisting children going through the trauma of parent's loss
  • Organising leisure activities for children and teenagers
  • helping domestic refugees in Ukraine
    We work in cooperation with Ukrainian organisations - BUR and the foundation "Chance for a new life."

Support after the outbreak of war in Ukraine

Thanks to the long-term experience in managing aid activities that are based on verified needs and having at our disposal all the contacts, motivated volunteers and partners with broad experience in multiple fields, we were able to bring help from the very beginning of Russian aggression in Ukraine. We focus on the particular fields that are in our opinion not comprehensively cared for. The three of them are: humanitarian and medical care in the territory of Ukraine; providing the basic needs for the refugees in the territory of Poland; organizing long-term help structures.

Help needed

Each of our aid initiatives needs funding.

  • Humanitarian aid in Ukraine power generators, medical supplies, purchase of specialised equipment, transport.
  • Ukrainian school: teachers' employment, purchase of teaching aids, textbooks - printing or purchase, maintenance of the school building.
  • Camps, trips, integration and recreation for children and youth: transport, meals, tutors, psychological care, workshops and rental of sports equipment.
  • Training: integration and training trips for young leaders from Poland and Ukraine, coaching for Ukrainian psychologists, training of the staff and volunteers working with children.

Support us via a wire transfer!

  • Klub Inteligencji Katolickiej (Club of Catholic Intelligentsia)
    Transfer title:
    Darowizna na cele statutowe - ukraina
    SWIFT:
    BREXPLPWXXX
    PLN IBAN:
    PL69 1140 2062 0000 4445 3900 1005
    EUR IBAN:
    PL47 1140 2062 0000 4445 3900 1013
    USD IBAN:
    PL90 1140 2062 0000 4445 3900 1015
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