COOPERATION WITH INSTITUTIONS

In order to provide professional care for the beneficiaries of the Foundation we cooperate with other foundations, societies, educational and specialist institutions including:

Primary School nr 7 in Poznań
Poznań First Level Music High School nr 2
Junior High School nr 54 in Poznań
Centre for Preventing School Failure in Poznań
A Group of Schools with All-inclusive and Special-needs Classes in Poznań
Centre for Psychological and Pedagogical Counseling in Krzyż Wielkopolski
The national Centre for Competence
The national Circle for Help to Children with Cleft Lip and Palate
Society for Children with Genetic Disorders, GEN
Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań
The Poznan College of Modern Languages (PCML)
Social Primary School nr 2 in Poznan

we also cooperate with the following rehabilitation centres:

NEURON, Centre for Rehabilitation and Therapy in Małe Gacno and in Bydgoszcz
Centre for Horse Therapy and Rehabilitation for Disabled Children in Stobno near Piła
ZABAJKA, Centre for Horse Therapy and Rehabilitation in Stawnica near Złotowo
ZABAJKA 2, Centre for Rehabilitation of Children in Złotowo Centrum
NORMAN, Centre for Rehabilitation in Koszalin
TRATWA, Centre for Rehabilitation of Children and Youth in Steklinek near Toruń
A&S STUDIO, Centre for Functional Rehabilitation in Kraków

Thanks to the "ABCXXI Cała Polska Czyta Dzieciom" [The Whole of Poland is Reading to Children] Foundation we were able to give our beneficiaries gifts of books from a recommended collection at the end of the Workshop of the Joy of Life. The third edition of the Workshop was organized in cooperation with students from the Poznań Academy of Fine Arts, who prepared the programme and conducted activities with children.

COOPERATION WITH VOLUNTEERS

We are happy to see the commitment of young people, including students of Polish and foreign schools of higher education, who help us to do voluntary work within our Foundation. It is thanks to this kind of help that we managed in previous years to organize the Workshop of the Joy of Life – an event stimulating creativity and communication skills both in our beneficiaries and in their care givers.

At present we receive permanent help from:
Justyna Stasiak
Kacper Przyborowski

Volunteers from the University of Arts in Poznań (2007-2009)

Between 2007-2009 we organized three editions of the Workshops of the Joy of Life which took place during the Meetings of Art and Social Acts organized in Rybojady according to the project by prof. Janusz Marciniak. The Workshops were meant as meetings stimulating creativity and communication skills both in the beneficiaries of the Foundation as well as in their care givers. The form of the events, apart from its integrating function and endeavors to support positive attitudes and build joyful meeting spaces indicated by the name of the workshops, gave us an opportunity to get to know our beneficiaries in unusual for them situations.

The paintings created by students of the University of Arts in Poznań during the Meetings of Art and Social Acts in Rybojady we donated to institutions cooperating with our Foundation. We would like the centres for rehabilitation and treatment to become more patient friendly, especially for the youngest patients. One of the ways to work towards it is to present artwork in medical centres which give an opportunity to enchant these impersonal spaces.

The programme of the 1st Workshop of the Joy of Life (2007)

The programme of the 2nd Workshop of the Joy of Life (2008)

The programme of the 3rd Workshop of the Joy of Life (2009)

Students from the University of Arts in Poznań and volunteers from other schools of higher education who looked after the children included:
Agnieszka Popek-Banach, Kamil Banach, Tomasz Pieszko, Zuzanna Dąbrowska, Aleksandra Korbolewska, Robert Bodnar, Jarosław Umiński, Sylwia Kuźnik, Anita Bednarek, Katarzyna Miarka, Robert Stefaniak, Justyna Stasiak, Paulina Przyborowska, Anna Popek, Piotr Marciniak.
Care was provided on behalf of the Signum Foundation and the Lama Gold company included:
Hanna Przyborowska, Jarosław Przyborowski, Milena Stasiak, Dariusz Stasiak, Hanna Bednarz, Joanna Mek-Imała, Patrycja Trojanowska, Krzysztof Makowski, Maciej Markowski, Janusz Marciniak (The Signum Foundation and the Poznań Academy of Fine Arts).
Our guests were:
Mr and Mrs Rafał and Elżbieta Labijak, Mr and Mrs Maciej and Natasza Mazurek.
Our thanks go to:
Mr and Mrs Jan and Iwona Sawicki from Rybojady for their help and cooperation.