Homelessness remains a major social issue in Poland. Tens of thousands of people living on the streets experience social exclusion. At Good Factory, we believe that every person, regardless of their past, has the inalienable right to dignity and respect.
In the poorest regions of the world where we work daily, we are shaken by hunger, lack of access to water, medicine, or education. Similarly, in Poland, we at the Good Factory have long been moved by the issue of homelessness, which often happens somewhere in the background of our busy lives, our commute to work or school.
We are just a few unpaid bills, a family fight, trauma, betrayal, or a state in which one can no longer help themselves away from ending up on the street. Escaping the homelessness crisis sometimes takes years of patience; there are no quick fixes, and it cannot be done alone. That’s why, for several years, the Good Factory, thanks to YOU, has been supporting those who know best how to help the homeless.
For several years, we have been helping the homeless in Warsaw cope with the extreme challenge of surviving the winter. We prepare Warm Packages with high boots and down jackets. We respond to requests from organizations working with people in a homelessness crisis, providing them with mattresses, underwear, and clothes.
Solving such tangled human stories always has to start with the absolute basics. Warm clothing, a blanket, and winter boots won’t solve these problems. But they can buy time. They give a person the chance to face them. For years, during the winter period, which is the hardest time for the homeless, we have been organizing emergency kits for them. Every year before the severe frosts hit, during Christmas with the Poor organized by the Sant’Egidio Community in Warsaw, you donate around 150 sleeping bags, 50 pairs of boots, as many warm jackets and backpacks to the homeless in Warsaw through us! We receive reports on how useful those kits are. They help people survive nights often spent in empty buildings and barracks, which, in low temperatures, pose a deadly risk.
On behalf of the homeless and needy, whose lives your WARM hearts have saved this winter, we thank you very much.
You can purchase a Warm Package at any time in our market of good deeds – GoodWorks 24/7. Every purchase is a bit of warmth from those who have it to those who need it.
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