A Care Package for a Senior/Paczka dla Seniora

A few months have passed since we completed the 12th edition of A Care Package for a Senior, and we would like to begin with a simple message to our first supporter on GlobalGiving: thank you for joining this project.

Your contribution is part of a much larger effort to make sure that elderly people experiencing loneliness, financial difficulties, and social exclusion know that they have not been forgotten.

This year, 928 seniors across Poland received care packages worth a total of PLN 189,312. The initiative brought together 109 volunteers, who contributed 281 hours of their time, as well as 37 social partners and 15 companies.

But these numbers describe only part of the impact.

The packages contain practical everyday products — food, cosmetics, household supplies, and other essentials that can help ease the pressure on a limited household budget. Yet the most important part of the project often begins when the package reaches the door.

For many of the seniors we support, the delivery becomes an opportunity to meet another person, talk, share memories, and simply spend some time together. One of this year's first packages was delivered to a woman who had participated in the Warsaw Uprising. What was planned as a short delivery turned into a long conversation about her life, history, and experiences.

Moments like this remind us that A Care Package for a Senior is not only a material aid project. It is a project about human connection.

There is another reason this initiative is particularly important to us. The idea was originally created by young people growing up in residential foster care. Young people from care facilities continue to participate in the project today. Those who have experienced difficulties and a lack of stability themselves are given an opportunity to become volunteers, take responsibility, and support someone else.

This intergenerational dimension remains at the heart of the initiative.

As we prepare for the next edition, we want to preserve what works best: combining practical assistance with personal encounters and bringing together young people, volunteers, local organizations, businesses, and donors around a shared goal.

Thank you for making your first contribution to this project through GlobalGiving. We hope it will be the beginning of a community that will help us reach even more seniors in the future.

Because sometimes a package provides what someone needs today — but the visit reminds them that they still matter.