MENU 
News

News

On 15-18 March we organized a Polish-German online youth exchange. About 30 students from Evangelische Schule Pankow from Berlin and the The Martin Luther Memorial Evangelical Centre for Diaconia and Education Foundation from Wrocław took part in it. Young people from both these institutions had already met together in Krzyżowa in recent years, now for the first time their exchange had an online formula.

The main topics of the meeting was: ecology, environmental protection and sustainable development. The organizers of the exchange also showed young people, live, places in Krzyżowa, which are interesting and valuable from the point of view of their importance for the environment.

The first day of the Polish-German-Israeli online youth exchange, which will last until 24 March 2022, is behind us. 45 young people from Tychy, Berlin and Yehud take part in it.

Creating a space for dialogue, exchanging ideas for international activities and developing long-term friendship between partner schools are one of the many goals of this year's meeting, which was transferred to a virtual space due to the pandemic. The next four days are a kind of introduction to a long-term project. This is the first meeting of young people, followed by two more, we hope in a stationary form. IIntegration, exchange of ideas, brainstorming, development of a multi-annual action plan - all this will allow young people to develop their social competences and strengthen their commitment to society in the international dimension.

The number of people from Ukraine who have found shelter in Krzyżowa is still close to 100. Some of our guests have been with us from the very beginning, since we opened our centre for refugees, and others are with us for a shorter time - they rest and then continue their journey. However, they are quickly replaced by others in need.

Our guests are becoming more and more familiar with our place and have taken over some of the tasks of guiding the new refugees and presenting the opportunities they have while living in Krzyżowa.

Our team continues to provide families with the most necessary goods and organise activities for children and adults. During the day, we continue with workshops for the youngest and older children, as well as Polish language classes for adults. We have also just launched a carpentry workshop for children, which will be run by Tomasz Rosiński, a sculptor befriended with the Foundation. We also continue to help families with health care issues.

Trilateral Polish-German-Ukrainian youth exchanges have been taking place at Krzyżowa since the Foundation's beginnings. Our statistics show that in the past 10 years alone, 139 international educational projects in partnership with Ukraine have been completed with a total of 1886 Ukrainian participants. These meetings are not only about getting to know each other, acquiring knowledge about another country and culture, or spending time actively. Above all, they are bonds which make it difficult to stand aside when something bad happens to our friends.

About the Foundation

Would you like to stay up to date?

Subscribe to our newsletter and be the first to know about upcoming events!

The creation of this website was supported by:

Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe

Krzyżowa 7, 58-112 Grodziszcze, Poland

phone: +48 74 85 00 300

fax: +48 74 85 00 305

e-mail: sekretariat@krzyzowa.pl

Site map

We use cookies on our website. Some of them are essential for the operation of the site, while others help us to improve this site and the user experience (tracking cookies). You can decide for yourself whether you want to allow cookies or not. Please note that if you reject them, you may not be able to use all the functionalities of the site.

Ok
More information