Volunteers Club meets animal shelter and Pallotinum Caritas Common Centre

On 17 January 2013, group of 23 volunteers from Volunteers Club working in the Local Social Welfare Centre along with their guardians had an opportunity to familiarize themselves with activity of the animal shelter in Radom and Pallotinum Caritas Common Centre.One of the shelter’s workers told us about its activity up to now, challenges to manage by this institution, its workers and volunteers. We also had an opportunity to meet 640 animals currently living in the shelter. Thanks for that visit we learnt about help, which is given to the animals, about rules of delivering animal to the shelter, what steps must be taken in order to adopt a pet. We also learnt about shelter’s needs. All of us can support institution’s activity by giving feed for animals, pastas, porridge, blankets, clothes, carpets, we can also become volunteers and, for example, take a walk with dogs in our free time.

Next stage of our trip was meeting in Pallotinum Caritas Common Centre, where we enjoyed our hosts’ hospitality and we listened with attention to the presentation of common centre’s activity up to now. Purpose of institution’s activity is getting integrated physical-psychic and spiritual development of alumni. Purpose is fulfilled by compensation of educational lacks, i.a. corrective classes, coaching, hobby’s development, creating positive view of the world, giving interpersonal values. Children in various age stay in common centre, from different communities and with different needs, actions like ‘Winter in the city’, ‘Summer in the city’, ‘Children’s Day’ etc. are organized for them. Activity of the common room is possible in considerable part thanks for winning funds from contest projects, good people’s generosity and selfless, priceless work of volunteers. We were welcomed with open arms and heart by headmaster priest of Pallotinum Caritas. Full of positive energy, we ended our escapade with plans of cooperation with shelter and common centre.