Flagship social projects

The Artistic Cellar space was furnished with multimedia equipment, a projection screen and a projector, a sound system, and seats on podiums. This allows films shows, theatrical rehearsals, dancing and gymnastics classes, as well as reciting and music competitions to be held in the hall. The new venue is used by members of local interest clubs and groups, pupils of Łęczna schools and senior citizens. The Artistic Cellar has already been used by participants of dancing workshops, the 23rd Autumn Reciting Competition, the 1st Commune Patriotic Song, Poetry and Prose Competition Tu wszędzie Polska, tu – Ojczyzna! and by the audience of film shows arranged in cooperation with the Friends of Łęczna Region Society. It is also a venue for rehearsals and performances of Gravite theatre which has been active in the commune for a dozen or so years.

The place allows various exercises to be performed on pull-up rods, which are a street variety of calisthenics, i.e. power training similar to sport acrobatics. The exercise equipment was selected so as to enable everyone to improve balance, agility and coordination, irrespective of their physical condition level. The gym was set up at the Municipal Social Assistance Centre at ul. Adama Mickiewicza 23.

Thanks to them, children will be able to learn languages with the use of the modern e-Twinning platform. The interactive boards are a tool necessary to implement the Hałabala the Gnome Touring Poland and the World project with the use of the e-Twinning platform. It enables kindergartens from Poland and other European countries to cooperate and share ideas for educational activities, and teachers will be able to participate in cyclic professional workshops, conferences and e-learning courses.

The courses were addressed to the residents of Chraplewo, Dąbrowa and Dąbrowa Nowa, Michorzewo, Michorzewko, Wąsów, Kuślin, Głuponie, Śliwno, Trzcianka, Turkowo and Krystianowo. The participants were trained in the assessment of the injured person’s condition, check of vital signs, and handling an unconscious victim. Each participant received a first aid kit, a certificate and a pre-medical first aid manual. The Not Afraid to Save Life – Pre-medical First Aid project increased thew residents’ competence and awareness in the field of first aid and safety improvement.

The grant provided by PSE for the Energetic Children Give Us Strength project made it possible to equip the room with training aids – swings, square and rotary rope ladders, a sensory path, tunnel and balls, exercise bags, kinaesthetic sand, rehabilitation roller, sand tray, textured balls, boards and cushions, a mattress and a mat. 20 children will participate in the activities during a year. The sensory integration room will also be made available for therapeutic activities organised by the White Eagle Primary School in Bierna and the Public Kindergarten in Sulików.

They included sets for online bird monitoring, TV sets and large nest boxes. Thanks to the Eye on a Bird project, the primary school and kindergarten pupils in Rzekuń will be able to watch nature, learn basic bird species, their habitats and habits.

The bench is equipped with photovoltaic panels, owing to which it can be used to charge a phone or access the Internet. A multimedia projector and a screen were also purchased under the project for the village daycare centre in Proszówka.

The commune sport shall is the centre of the local community’s social life – a place where tournaments and celebrations are held, attended by residents of Magnuszew and the neighbouring communes. The hall floor had been in a very poor state of repair for some time, posing a threat to the users’ safety. Sport training conditions improved considerably owing to the repair. Opportunities improved for the commune’s residents of different age groups to develop sport activities.

Under the project, seven devices were purchased for non-verbal communication for pupils with aphasia, autism, dysarthria, intellectual disability and cerebral palsy. The direct beneficiaries of the project undertaken by a local association in partnership with PSE are persons who are unable to communicate in a comprehensible way. The ability to use modern equipment for communication is an opportunity for children and their families to make the daily lives easier. With the communicators purchased, the participants of the project can e.g. express their needs. Each message can be repeated any number of times. The communicators can record and hold up to several hundred messages. The devices enable dumb or speech-impaired persons to convey important information on their ideas and needs and participate in conversations. In addition, the communicators allow knowledge gained during lessons to be verified. On the other hand, a symbol printing program makes it possible to create books supporting communication.

In is a garden with a total area of 600 m², equipped with educational aids, such as weather instruments, information boards, as well as nest boxes, feeders, drinking boxes and insect houses. The Green Energy Centre consists of four separate stations with drees, an orchard and honey-yielding plants. The garden was also equipped e.g. with a gazebo serving a “green classroom”, weather instruments, educational boards, as well as nest boxes and feeders for birds. It is the first place of this kind in Lubiszyn commune. A few dozen people from the Primary School in Staw and from PSE engaged in the project. The garden development work was carried out together by pupils and their parents, teachers and other school workers, as well as other residents of Staw and the surrounding villages, e.g. firemen, and members of the local country housewives’ club. The volunteers took care of land levelling and setting out, laying paving blocks to the gazebo, transport and planting of plants, and construction of pathways. They also installed nest boxes, feeders and insect houses. The garden was also equipped with weather instruments: barometer, anemometer, rain gauge, and nature education boards.

The park is used to foster and develop appropriate attitudes and habits related to the safe and responsible conduct of children on roads.

Under the practice, a weather station was purchased for the school with components including a Stevenson screen with measuring instruments, an automatic weather station and LCD screen for the display of data from the station, and a dust meter. The Stevenson screen contains thermometers, a hygrometer, a barometer, while a rain gauge and an anemometer are installed outside.

An information board on the front wall of the school building informs the pupils and all residents about the current air condition. The weather station is installed on the school roof and it shows measurement results automatically on-line. The results are also presented in a special tab on the school’s website. Owing to this project, the pupils have the opportunity to analyse weather parameters on an ongoing basis and carry out research projects. As a consequence of the initiative, a meteorology club was set up in the school.

Now the school has the only fully equipped physics and chemistry lab in the commune. The pupils will be able to acquire not only theoretical, but also practical knowledge through their own participation and experiments. The physics and chemistry lab with all facilities can be made available for open classes to other schools in the commune.

Also guests and tourists – enthusiasts of cycling excursions and rallies, frequently visiting the commune in the spring/summer season – sometimes found themselves in difficult situations. This need gave rise to Kozienice Bike Assistance – bicycle self-service bicycle infrastructure for residents and tourists, i.e. bicycle repair stations and open training in road safety. The stations were set up at the Vantage Point in Kępeczki, at Public Primary School No 4 in Kozienice and at the Delfin swimming pool. Not only cyclists find them useful – they also help parents with strollers, carers of disabled persons on wheelchairs, and can even be used to inflate sports balls or mattresses.

Furniture was purchased for children, more than 200 books and recordings, and a corner was equipped for parents and guardians, who will be able to use comfortable armchairs and a collection of books with new acquisitions concerning child upbringing and education. With PSE’s support, aids were also purchased for library lessons and art classes for children.

Owing to this, pupils from the School and Preschool Complex in Męcinka and the School and Preschool Complex in Piotrowice will be able to use LED matrixes with replaceable boards and an English learning robot.

Thanks to thissport facilities were provided, needed to open the table tennis section in Pielgrzymka Commune.

Our organisation provided financial support to the establishment of the first (Central) route. It is the first of eight stages to be completed in Wiązowna-Glinianka commune.

A nearly 18-kilometre Central route was created, crossing a Natura 2000 site nearby nature preserves in the valley of the Świder and Mienia rivers. Just like the routes to be developed in the years to come, the first section runs along asphalt roads, dirt roads and, at places, along forest tracks. The route was marked and equipped with signposts, road signs, metal posts, and information boards. In future, benches, bicycle racks and rubbish bins are planned to be purchased. The route is suitable both for experienced cyclists and for cycling amateurs, families with children, or senior citizens.

The first cycling route starts at the Municipal Park in the centre of Wiązowna and runs through Piekło, Żanęcin, Pęclin, Kąck and Poręba. The section ends in Glinianka at Napoleońska St. The other seven routes are planned to be built in the coming years: Northern Route – from Zagórze to Kąck (over 15 km), Świder Route from Wiązowna to Glinianka (over 22 km), Partyzancki Route from z Kopki to Kąck (about 8 km), From Manor to Manor around Glinianka, Duchnów Link from Wiązowna to Duchnów (over 6 km), Warsaw Bridgehead Fortifications from Józefów to Stara Miłosna (about 19 km) and Michałów Link in Michałówek (about 1 km).

All the routes were set out by Paweł Ajdacki, tourism expert and councillor of Otwock poviat in collaboration with the Otwock Branch of the Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society and the Tourist Information Centre. The route concept was consulted with residents and cyclists.

The trail runs across picturesque areas of Puszcza Biała, in the Wyszków Forest District. Apart from educational boards, different attractions are situated along the route, such as directional boards, bike racks, birdhouses and animal feeders.

Previously, among 29 villages in Niemce commune only one had an outdoor gym. For access to a playground, residents of Baszki had to travel with their children to different parts of the region. The space for outdoor activity created with PSE’s support addresses these inconveniences.