Double victory
Two informal groups Senior`s Club and ‘Ladies Club’ which operate at the Local Social Welfare Centre in Kowala got financing fund on social activities which should activate people. It was the next time when non-governmental organisations from Kowala commune reached for grants and were in a group of chosen people in the VIIIth edition of ‘Działaj Lokalnie’ competition of Polish-American Foundation of Freedom, which is realized by Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland. This year we got double victory.
Senior`s Club is realizing project ‘Tastes of life’ from 1st July to 31th December. It is said that a way to the heart is through the stomach. Is that true? The participants of the project will try to find the answer to this question. Within project activities they will improve their abilities of making meals, also these which evoke nice feelings, to tempt to act even the biggest malcontents. Smell, taste, common ‘meal’ can propitiate to social actions even the sceptics. Local meals- pyzioki, marchwioki or gruszczoki, subject trainings – ‘Tasty wall’, herbalist, rules of diet, cooking workshops in a professional family restaurant in Radom or workshops with youngsters ‘Twist’, discussions in a café ‘Siódme Niebo’ will take place from the 1st July in Senior`s Club.
On the other hand, Ladies Club proposes realisation of the project ‘You are not alone any more’. Planned activities will start from the 1st September and will last to the 31th December. Human`s life is inseparably joined with belonging to numerous group with social character. Why is this happening, that during our lives we join to different groups just to activate together and change ourselves and local society for better? Participants of the project are looking for the answer together with gaining abilities on workshops and are promoting them in local society. This project will allow to realize small plans, dreams, aims, improve physical and psychological condition, thanks to which they can change or make dynamic their own situation. The project promotes dancing workshops, scrapbooking, Christmas decorations and also celebrating together or making chronicles. Association Yongsters Centre Arka in Radom is the Centre of Local Activity and from 2005 has been participating in the Programme Działaj Lokalnie of American Foundation of Freedom which is realized by the Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland. Funds which are gained within the Programme are like support to realize projects which initiate cooperation between settlers for the common good. They are directed to non-governmental organisations and informal groups, which take common effort to improve their lives.
