“When you welcome your loved ones, the lonely senior will look sadly at the empty place at the Christmas Eve table. She will turn on the lights on the modest Christmas tree, although once again the hope inside her will fade away. There will be no laughter and conversations, there will be a terrifying silence again. There are such Christmas stories. thousands. It doesn’t have to be like this,” we read on the website.
As part of the campaign, the association’s volunteers organize Christmas Eve meetings for several hundred seniors. They also remember those who are unable to leave home due to health problems, providing them with Christmas gifts and conversation on Christmas evening. Providing dinner, a gift and transport for one senior costs approximately PLN 100. People who would like to support the “Give Christmas Eve” campaign with any amount can do so on the website.
We support our seniors all year round, but Christmas is a special time because loneliness during Christmas hurts the most
– emphasize the volunteers.
They offer seniors presence. “When you lose friends, you lose everything”
The Little Brothers of the Poor Association is an international organization that has been operating in Poland for over 20 years. Its volunteers support elderly, lonely people from 10 cities – Warsaw, Lublin, Poznań, Pruszków, Świdnik, Wrocław, Kraków, Łódź, Tarnów and Gniezno. The most important program of the association is called “Presence”, and its main idea is the regular presence of a volunteer in the life of seniors. According to the association’s estimates, there are 280,000 in Poland. older people who suffer from loneliness. about how quickly Polish society is aging suggest that there will be more and more such people.
When we were young, we all went to the Lublin lakes as a group, it was a great friendship. One could feel the closeness of hearts. When you lose friends, you lose everything
– says one of the association’s beneficiaries, 70-year-old Mr. Krzysztof.
Source: Gazeta
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