We started to support the people in need by cooperating with Piękne Anioły Association from Kraków, and just a few weeks later, we officially registered an independent foundation-METAPOMOC.
The first months were really hard for us as we struggled with the administrative and organisational procedures. We were getting to know the most important local activists such as: Marianna Sitek-Wróblewska and her Foundation GFIS and Aurelisz Leżeński – the President of Robinson Crusoe Foundation in Warsaw and a member of ASHOKA worldwide organisation in supporting entrepreneurship.
We prepared plenty of seminars and panel discussions to pose the questions to many philanthropists and public administrations employees. We actively participated in meetings with social housing support team appointed by The Department for Social Development UMG. In this regard, we marked our presence in the city’s structure.
We have been learning who really the former foster youths are together with their characters and motivations in life during the whole period. We arrived to conclusion that even if all the participants in our projects have the same background, when you get to know them better, they are entirely different people. They are of different sex, intelligence, sensitivity to outside stimuli, encountered experience and willingness to change their future. We are motivated to support the best of them, the most talented and the most determined and integrate them into society.
We are currently waiting for signing up the cooperation agreement with the City of Gdańsk. It constitutes a valuable assistance in renovation of the social housing in good locations given to our mentees. In return, Foundation shall develop Volunteering Project to recruit, so called, Foundation’s Friends that will assist the wards of state in their adult life. Moreover, our Development Programme METAPOMOC Team is in the process of implementing the next stages concerning career support to our mentees.
I would like to thank to all of you who selflessly assist us by their actions or by giving us a lot of positive energy. WE ARE REALLY GLAD TO HAVE YOU ALL!
And another busy year is ahead of us! 🙂