Grow a future generation of volunteers in Poland

Dear Donors and Friends,

As we enter 2026, we would like to share a summary of the past months — from October 2025 to January 2026 — and show how your support helps us respond to one of the biggest challenges currently facing the nonprofit sector — the decreasing number of volunteers in Poland.

The last quarter and the beginning of the new year have been a time of intensive work on developing our safe volunteering hub — a space where young people and adults can grow, gain experience, and safely engage in helping others, especially in the context of social change and an aging population.

In recent months, the number of people we support has significantly increased — an additional 100 seniors have joined our support programs. Today, our volunteers support approximately 600 seniors from small towns and rural areas in southern Mazovia. Every day, volunteers deliver meals, visit seniors in their homes, support activities for children, help distribute prepaid shopping cards, and assist in running our Senior Day Care.

The period from November through January was also a time of extraordinary engagement from our volunteers in organizing Christmas activities. Volunteers helped prepare holiday meetings, supported seniors, and assisted in distributing holiday aid. Thanks to them, many people were able to feel the atmosphere of the holidays, human closeness, and the reassurance that they are not alone.

Over the past months, we have placed strong focus on volunteer development and retention. We organized additional onboarding meetings for new volunteers and small-group workshops focused on communication, emotional resilience, and safe work with people in vulnerable situations. Thanks to this, we are building not only a larger volunteer base, but also a stronger and better-prepared one.

We are also proud that our long-term educational efforts are bringing results. More and more volunteers treat volunteering as an important part of developing life skills — learning teamwork, time management, communication, and emotional awareness. This directly supports our vision of building a new generation of socially responsible community members.

At the same time, we remain aware of how important it is to achieve our fundraising goal. So far, three donors have supported us, bringing us closer to our first milestone. Every new donor brings us closer to creating a stable, safe volunteering development system that will secure the future of our programs and the people who rely on them.

In the coming months, we plan to further expand our volunteer recruitment campaign across the Mazovia region, strengthen cooperation with schools and universities, and launch new workshops showing young people that volunteering can be safe, developmental, and truly world-changing.

Your support helps us build a world where helping others is not an exception — but a natural part of everyday life.

Thank you for your trust, for supporting our volunteers, and for helping us build a stronger, more caring community.

With gratitude and hope,

The Klementyna Foundation Team