Barka (Foundation)
| Barka (Foundation) | |
|---|---|
| Purpose: | Outreach social work |
| Chair: | Tomasz Sadowski |
| Consist: | since 1989 |
| Seat: | Poznan , Poland |
| Website: | [1] |
The Barka Foundation ( Polish Fundacja Pomocy Wzajemnej "Barka" ) is a Polish charitable organization .
Founded by Maria Garwolin in 1989, it has its headquarters in Poznan under its chairman, the psychologist Tomasz Sadowski . It does social work in the area of neglected social groups throughout Poland and in other European countries , maintains, among other things, nursing homes and combats so-called social exclusion . It is financed exclusively from government grants and European funds.
Activities realized by the foundation are:
- social welfare programs
- Social pedagogy
- Creation of new jobs for the long-term unemployed
- Affordable housing
She has been working in England since 2007. In the London boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham in particular , she does so-called outreach social work. She tries to persuade stranded Eastern Europeans to return to their home countries.
Web links
- Homepage (Polish)
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ewa Sadowska interview - Helping the East Europeans who fail to find success in London
- ↑ Barka UK - Reconnection Project ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Homeless UK
- ↑ Stories of people who returned with Barka from London ... ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Der Spiegel 32/2011, p. 98: "Failed plumbers: Global Village: How the Poles try to help their compatriots stranded in England"
