A brave woman, it’s hard to find one… Ms. Walentyna’s story.
Ms. Walentyna came to Maciejkowa Gora from the Narew Municipality from the small village of Gramotne, located in the edge of the Ladzka Forest included in the Białowieska Forest Promotional Complex, at the mouth of the Narewka River into the Narew River. Here she was born and lived her youth. For the first four years
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Mr. Andrzej, a miner from Podlasie
Mr. Andrzej is one of our younger patients. His story begins in Maciejkowa Gora, where he was born as one of seven siblings. There was no elementary school there, and so from an early age he commuted to Nowa Wola. After graduating from it, he moved to the other end of Poland, as far as
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Mrs. Maria has already lived 94 years in Luplanka Stara
Mrs. Maria was born in Łuplanka Stara before the war. Here she has lived all her life. She was still in first grade when her parents built a new house where they intended to live. But for financial reasons, the building was first used as a local school and 2 rooms were rented to a
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Raising the awareness of young people
On 16.06.2023r. together with Adam Kujawa, we had a meeting with the students from the School Volunteers of the 7th and 8th grades of Zabludow Elementary School. The meeting was attended by 22 students and 2 teachers. In the first part of the meeting, we presented the mission of the Foundation and talked about the
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Professor Barbara Noworolska
Mrs. Barbara was born in Szopienice. At that time, it was a historic part of Katowice. Her father, Teodor, worked in the local mine as a foreman. In 1931 there was a dangerous collapse – during it he prayed to St. Barbara and led the miners out of the buried shaft. In gratitude for this
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Ministry of Health – “Survey on the directions of development of long-term health care in Poland”
The Ministry of Health recognizes the impact of the socio-demographic changes taking place in our country, which make issues concerning the appropriate adjustment of the organization of long-term care increasingly pressing. It is therefore undertaking a strategic review of the long-term care system in Poland. To this end, it is conducting a publicly available online
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Ms. Julia, resident of Siemianówka
Ms. Julia was born during the war, in Siemianowka, where she still lives today. It was here that she finished elementary school and then stayed with her parents to help them with their daily hard work on the land. It was also here, in Siemianowka, that she met her future husband. Fate brought him to
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Ms. Halinka
She was born in Mościska village, municipality of Michalowo and started elementary school here, but completed only 3 classes, located in private houses. Then it was necessary to commute to Michalowo and this is about 5 km. As she says, the commute varied: in the summer by bicycle and in the winter her father took
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Ombudsman’s Office – we share the lessons of the actions
Once again, at the invitation of the Ombudsman’s Office, we spoke about the conclusions of the innovations implemented as part of the project “To give what is really needed” and the scaling of the social innovation “Home care in rural areas” (implemented by the NGO Support Center from Białystok). At the forum of the Committee
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We are visualizing a new model for long-term care in rural areas
We combine the efforts of the medical and care team with the operation of a local support network and a dependent care coordinator to flexibly meet the needs of our residents. Here we show how the mechanism of the new care model works.
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