Prime Minister Beata Szydło, along with Minister of Family, Elżbieta Rafalska, and Province Governor, Mikołaj Bogdanowicz, summed up a year of functioning of the Family 500+ programme.

“It turned out that if you trust the families, if you trust people, money is not wasted, but it is well invested. Polish families know how to invest money from the 500 plus programme. And this greatest investment of ours is here with us – those wonderful smiling kids who are our future,” Beata Szydło said.

Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy, Elżbieta Rafalska, present at the meeting stressed that the basic objectives of the programme, namely higher birth rate, reduction in poverty and broadly understood investment in family, are being fulfilled.

“Polish families say that in the hierarchy of values, family happiness is of paramount importance to us, and thus, today, we have the opportunity to support Polish families in a meaningful, measurable, consistent and long-lasting way through the family policy of the government of Prime Minister Beata Szydło,” Minister Rafalska said.