TOWARZYSTWO POMOCY IM. ŚW. BRATA ALBERTA KOŁO WROCŁAWSKIE
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Mission Statement
We are an independent Catholic charity. The Society has been acting since 1981 and is the first non-governmental organization in Poland that started to help the homeless - by following the ideas propagated by its patron, St. Brother Albert - Adam Chmielowski, a Polish painter and religious. The Society accomplishes its aims through: establishing and running hostels, night shelters, permanent residence homes; social work, legal and psychological help, ministry; running soup kitchens, bath houses, day rooms, clubs, organizing special events and celebrations, summer camps; distributing food, clothes, appliances, household detergents, medicines, doctor's and nurse's services, a filmotherapy group, computer labs, charity shops; international homeless soccer games; cooperation with local and central government, the Catholic Church, non-governmental organizations; information activities, inspiring scientific research; staff and volunteers training.
About This Cause
We are an independent Catholic charity. The Society's aim is to help the poor and the homeless by following the ideas propagated by its patron, St. Brother Albert - Adam Chmielowski. The society accomplishes its aims through: • establishing and running hostels, night shelters, permanent residence homes; • social work, legal and psychological help, ministry; • running soup kitchens, bath houses, day rooms, clubs, organizing Christmas Eve suppers and Easter breakfasts, summer camps; • distributing food, clothes, appliances, household detergents, medicines; • doctor's and nurse's services; • cooperation with local and central government, the Catholic Church, non-governmental organizations; • information activity, inspiring scientific research; • staff and volunteers training. The Society has been acting since 1981 and is the first non-governmental organization in Poland that started to help the homeless. Until 1989 it was named Adam Chmielowski's Aid Society. It has 2,900 members organized in 62 Circles (branches). Each Circle (branch) tries to establish a hostel, soup kitchen or other kind of help for the poor and homeless people. "... Each hungry person should be given food, a homeless one - a place to stay, and a naked - clothes. If you cannot give much, give little..." In our centres we also attempt to obey this rule, which was followed in the shelters organized by St. Brother Albert. We are running 75 shelters. Shelters for men: • 36 hostels with over 2,000 places; • 2 hostels combined with a night shelter; • 2 dormitories and 5 protected flats; • 9 night shelters; • 2 places for warming up. Shelters for women and children: • 8 hostels for women and mothers with children with 260 places; • charity kitchens; • 1 children's home where 45 children stays; • 1 night shelter for women; • as well as 9 homes for the sick and the elderly where 260 people lives. - All in all, there are about 3300 people staying in these institutions. And also: • 14 soup kitchens and 2 eating places which serve 2,900 meals daily; • a chemist's supported by donations; • 5 free bath houses; • 13 centres of clothing and food distribution; • 3 day rooms, the Albertinian Club; • 8 motivation centres for the unemployed; • 4 social integration clubs and social and career reintegration centre; • sport integration teams; • charity shops; • 1 filmotherapy centre (Cinema Albert Productions in Wroclaw); • 1 computer lab (Jacek Jureczko Computer Lab for the Homeless in Wroclaw). As the need arises, we renovate and extend our institutions ourselves.