Polish aid

- Poland is sending a humanitarian aid transport to Sudan. This is yet another solidarity measure initiated this year by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a country which has found itself in dire need - said Deputy Foreign Minister Paweł Jabłoński announcing the donation of material aid for Sudan.

“Poland is committed and determined to support Belarusian society in its efforts to promote respect for fundamental freedoms and democracy. Providing conditions for further education for Belarusian students is an important aspect of our offer,” said Marek Kuberski, who is in charge of the Department of Development Cooperation at the Polish MFA, at an inauguration ceremony to launch the Solidarity with Students programme, attended by several hundred beneficiaries. The programme is part of the Solidarity with Belarus aid package.

Ensuring access to primary health care for displaced Iraqis and their host communities is the main objective of a two-year project run the Club of Catholic Intelligentsia (KIK) in cooperation with STEP-IN, a partner organisation. Project activities were carried out in the village of Sharya, which was visited by KIK’s mobile medical team, and in a camp in Dawoodia, where the local partner is responsible for providing medical care.

Since April 2019, the Maltese Assistance Foundation – Maltese Medical Corps has been carrying out a project titled “Building rescue capacities of Moldova’s fire service.” The project is funded from Polish MFA’s development cooperation programme. The project’s partner is the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations responsible for organising the work of emergency services in the Republic of Moldova.

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Since October this year, Moldovan emergency workers have been taking part in intensive training courses designed to improve their search and rescue skills, and to support and develop Moldova’s rescue potential.

- Thanks to effective cooperation between national institutions, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of National Defense, Solidarity Fund PL as well as Treasury-owned companies and foundations, and despite the ongoing challenges related to the pandemic-driven crisis, we can still provide assistance to those most in need outside our borders. - stressed the minister speaking about humanitarian aid which was dispatched to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan earlier today.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, over 250 million children and youth did not attend school, and 800 million adults were illiterate.

Diseases, particularly the infectious ones, know no borders. Similarly, measures aimed not only at eliminating the pandemic but also at mitigating its social and economic effects should cross borders, too. This is the guiding principle for the implementers of Polish Aid projects devised to support the struggle with the coronavirus pandemic.

The aim of the project “Medical and dental help for refugees, displaced persons and local communities in Erbil governorate” is to improve the health and hygiene of Syrian refugees, internally displaced Iraqi citizens, and the local population of Erbil governorate.