Stakeholders of the FIO (Civic Initiatives Fund) project entitled “Recommendation to the all-Poland model of helping the homeless in winter” met for the second time on 26th November this year in the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy. The project stakeholders represent institutions and organizations in Poland which help and coordinate provision of help to the homeless in winter.

Over 50 people took part in the meeting. After the official opening by Jaroslaw Duda, the representative of the Department of Help and Social Integration Andrzej Trzeciecki presented the work progress on the National Strategy to Prevent and Tackle Homelessness. Afterwards, members of the project working group presented the results of the survey on provision of help to  the homeless in winter and  provided topic areas as well as solutions to be used in the Recommendation. The most important part of the meeting was a nearly two-hour discussion on the shape of the Recommendation. Numerous suggestions and proposals put forward by members of the meeting will be included in the final shape of the project.