Results of the II stage of the competition on pilot implementation of GSWM Model within system project 1.18 PO KL “Creating and developing standards of social aid and integration” (GSWB) have been announced. We already know who intends to conduct the testing and of which standards.

“Patron” Social Cooperative has won a competition entitled “Social Entrepreneur from Lower Silesia 2011” organized by the Social Economy Development Foundation. The Cooperative was founded in March 2010 by our Society’s Jeleniogorskie Circle and a society fighting with disability in Jelenia Gora, namely Polskie Towarzystwo Walki z Kalectwem
Oddzial Terenowy in Jelenia Gora. More about the Cooperative…

Gains from the XII edition of „To our brothers and sisters” Auction amounted to PLN 760 thousand, breaking the record of the XI edition i.e. PLN 600 thousand. 

Recent edition comprised 295 works donated by artists (painting, graphics, sculpture, photography).

The highest price, i.e. PLN 25 thousand, was offered for „Pejzaz” („Landscape”), the oil painting of Tadeusz Dominik.

Expiation day to apologise for sins and unfaithfulness of the Society and responsibility for personal faults is taking place in St Brother Albert’s Shelter in Przemysl.

We would like to inform you, that on 23 January 2012 the Human Resources Development Centre in Warsaw announced the II stage of the competition on a pilot implementation of standards of services devoted to homelessness and on testing the Model of Commune Standard of Leaving Homelessness Behind (pl GSWB).

Overview of Dariusz Dobrowolski’s films is presented in the Lower Silesian Film Centre on ul. Pilsudskiego 64A („Lalka” room):

• Tuesday 20 XII at 6 pm - "Skopani" (2008) and "Sie masz Wiktor" (2006)
• Wednesday 21 XII at 6 pm. -  "Moj Manhatan" (2010)

After Wednesday’s screening there is a meeting with the famous director Krzysztof Zanussi!  Please join us!

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Our Society have decided to support and take patronage over the Polish Boom Band initiative. The project is run by Prokulturamedia Association from Katowice, and plans to create a band of 7 homeless people, who will prepare a few interpretations of songs by well-known artists invited to participate in the project. Results will then be presented at concerts in Katowice and Lublin, and optionally during a short tournee across the biggest Polish cities.