{"id":2386,"date":"2025-04-20T16:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T14:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fdi.org.pl\/en\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:05:54","slug":"help-for-seniors-easter-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fdi.org.pl\/en\/blog\/2025\/04\/20\/help-for-seniors-easter-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Couriers of Good Change Seniors’ Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can you put empathy in a box? As it turns out, yes – and deliver it straight to the door of a senior citizen! This year’s edition of the 'Parcel for Seniors’ was like a real Easter cake: sweet, homemade and made with love. We have just completed the eleventh edition of the campaign, in which a total of 1008 seniors received pre-Easter parcels. But it is not just about material support. The initiative already has the power of an intergenerational solidarity network, born from an idea of young people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And it all started with… a few extraordinary teenagers\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

A few years ago, young people from the Kisielany foster home came up with an idea as part of the 'Junior Project Manager – It’s Me’ workshop series. They were asked to create their own community project – and they created something that continues to this day. Posters, collections, meetings with senior citizens who had not heard the words 'we remember’ for a long time. And so was born an i<\/span>ntergenerational chain of kindness<\/b> that now spans seven provinces, 41 social centres, NGOs and institutions, and grows every year.<\/span><\/p>\n

This year, <\/span>59 young people from foster care facilities <\/b>took part in the campaign, not only helping but also organising, coordinating and acting as professional project managers of the heart. We were supported by <\/span>20 companies<\/b> who contributed products, financial donations, the time of their employees and… heart.<\/span><\/p>\n

What’s in the heart is in the parcel<\/h4>\n

The young people were able to count on the almost limitless support and dedication of<\/span> 96 volunteers,<\/b> who spent a total of<\/span> 355 hours<\/b> packing and delivering parcels with an estimated market value of around <\/span>PLN 386,345<\/b> (that’s a lot of sour soup and vegetable salads!). Inside: food, cleaning products, cosmetics – all the essentials. But most importantly, what was inside? <\/span>Attention. Time. Heart. <\/b>Because these packages are not just gifts. They are signs: <\/span>„You are important to us. You are not alone.”<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Because Easter is not just about Easter eggs and a cupcake. It’s also a moment when a young person or a volunteer sits down with a senior, shares a cup of tea, listens to a story from half a century ago and, if only for a moment, forms a connection.It was a time when smiles became currency. And the participants truly became<\/span> couriers of goodness <\/b>– without postcodes, but with a map of human need. For the young people from the foster care facilities\u00a0 proof that they can make a difference, that they can act. For seniors – a sign that they are not alone. For volunteers and companies – an opportunity for real social engagement.<\/span><\/p>\n

We would like to thank everyone who was a part of this beautiful spring story: volunteers, PSOs, young people from foster care facilities, donors and partners: Accor Investments, Animex, Bielenda, Colgate, DeSilva, Develey, DSV, Jacobs, Dr Irena Eris, Henkel, Kupiec, Lenovo, Linklaters, L’Or\u00e9al Warsaw Plant, Lotte Wedel, McCormick, Nationale Nederlanden, POL-HUN, Okruszek and Yope. Thank you for once again helping this campaign to grow, develop and reach so many people.<\/span><\/p>\n

This year it was not the Easter Bunny, but us who together created<\/span> an Easter miracle!<\/b><\/p>\n\n\t\t