Youth Recreation Center (Poland)

Summary

The center is fulfilling the role of integration center for socially excluded people.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

Homeless youth, mainly from orphanages, are not used to social life. The location of the center, alongside a lake, is ideal for sport and many types of recreation activities. Its objective of integration center shown to be essential to motivate young people to carry on education, integration with the community and search for professional achievements. Homeless people feel empowered. The center is open for people from all over Poland, from diverse NGOs.

How will this project solve this problem?

To adapt the center's meeting room for study center with DVD equipment to organize educational activities for women, youth and children.

Potential Long Term Impact

To empower socially excluded people & motivate them to organize local communities to solve problems linked with lack of housing, unemployment, professional activation of women & youth, children’s education, organization of social support, etc.

Project Message

We are committed to encouraging needy people to face socioeconomic problems, offering them the necessary socio-educational infrastructure & promoting initiatives which lead to lasting solutions.
- Wojciech Zarzycki, Director

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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