Polish aid

Faced with the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Redemptoris Missio Humanitarian Aid Foundation is currently adapting and expanding the Holy Family Children Centre and the health centre in Kithatu, Kenya. The aim of the project is to help protect the facilities’ patients, charges and staff from infection.

The fight with the pandemic is still on. Thanks to the joint engagement of Caritas Poland and Caritas Jerusalem, as well as Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ subsidies under the Polish Aid programme, the National Rehabilitation Center in Bethlehem received four ventilators to aid its coronavirus-infected patients in local isolation ward.

The new multiannual programme for 2021-2030 was the key point on the agenda of today's 19th Development Cooperation Programme Board session chaired by the Deputy Foreign Minister and National Coordinator for Development Cooperation Paweł Jabłoński. The session was held remotely.

The Polish Embassy in Mexico donated nearly 8.5 tonnes of food and hygiene products for people struck by floods in the states of Tabasco and Chiapas, in southeast Mexico. The support was provided thanks to funds from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of Polish development assistance.

- Poland is sending a humanitarian aid transport to Sudan. This is yet another solidarity measure initiated this year by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a country which has found itself in dire need - said Deputy Foreign Minister Paweł Jabłoński announcing the donation of material aid for Sudan.

“Poland is committed and determined to support Belarusian society in its efforts to promote respect for fundamental freedoms and democracy. Providing conditions for further education for Belarusian students is an important aspect of our offer,” said Marek Kuberski, who is in charge of the Department of Development Cooperation at the Polish MFA, at an inauguration ceremony to launch the Solidarity with Students programme, attended by several hundred beneficiaries. The programme is part of the Solidarity with Belarus aid package.

Ensuring access to primary health care for displaced Iraqis and their host communities is the main objective of a two-year project run the Club of Catholic Intelligentsia (KIK) in cooperation with STEP-IN, a partner organisation. Project activities were carried out in the village of Sharya, which was visited by KIK’s mobile medical team, and in a camp in Dawoodia, where the local partner is responsible for providing medical care.

Since April 2019, the Maltese Assistance Foundation – Maltese Medical Corps has been carrying out a project titled “Building rescue capacities of Moldova’s fire service.” The project is funded from Polish MFA’s development cooperation programme. The project’s partner is the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations responsible for organising the work of emergency services in the Republic of Moldova.

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Since October this year, Moldovan emergency workers have been taking part in intensive training courses designed to improve their search and rescue skills, and to support and develop Moldova’s rescue potential.