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The Foundation For People Who Need Help "Gniazdo" was established in 1992. From the very beginning, it has been pursuing the "Programme of Aiding Children and Youth" coming for the families living on social margins in Katowice. The programme is carried out by the following groups run by the Foundation:

- Sociotherapeutic Day-care Centre for Children aged 7 to 13
- Youth Personal Development Club for teenagers aged 14-18



These centres take all-year-round care of 60 children and youngsters. Our pupils and students come from poor social circles, threatened with crime and addiction. The activities we take for our children and young people comprise:

- food provision
- assistance in learning
- arranging spare time activities
- organisation of summer, winter and interim holidays and outings
- running special physiotherapy classes
- counselling sessions
- provision of books, school equipment and clothing
- help in pursuing hobby (we organise or finance English language courses, computer and vocational courses (e.g. fiscal register usage), acrobatics and other,
- training in social skills and self-sufficiency (i.e. cleaning, cooking, household budget management etc.)
- help in job search.

All of them aim at giving equal opportunities to young people starting adult life; i.e. making our students able to act on their own in social and economic terms, to assume responsibility for their life and, consequently, to live in the manner other learned in their family and local neighbourhood.


Family Intervention Group

The actions taken by the above centres are supported by a clinic where experts work with parents of the children we take care of. The Family Intervention Group also renders counselling to all persons in need of such.


Silesian School of Instructors "GNIAZDO"

The school has the recommendation of Polish Psychological Association as a centre preparing social workers to give workshops discussing psychosocial topics and counselling sessions and by the Silesian Schools Superintendent as a centre for vocational training of teachers. Courses held by our school are paid, while the entire profit is spent on the aid actions carried out by the Foundation (e.g. to help the pupils of the Day-care Centre and the students of the Youth Club).


Federation for Social Reintegration

In January 2003, together with other non-governmental organisations, the Foundation established a Polish association of organisations fighting social marginalisation.


Funding:


We get the other funds to run our centres from private sponsors and applications.

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