Polish aid

The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ankara provided educational assistance to nearly 1,200 children living in Hatay and Adıyaman provinces. The regions were among the most affected by the February 2023 earthquake.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has awarded the Nansen Refugee Award to the Lena Grochowska Foundation. Lena and Władysław Grochowski, a married couple, have been running a private philanthropy since 2014. After the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the Grochowski family provided accommodation to refugees who urgently needed shelter.

The headquarters of the Training Centre of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Moldova (IGSU) in Răzeni hosted on 28 November 2023 a handover ceremony of the firefighting and personal protective equipment purchased under the project “Support to the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations - Stage II”.

On 9 November, the head of Polish diplomacy took part in a conference summoned on the initiative of President Macron and focusing on the humanitarian aid and current situation in the Gaza Strip.

Undersecretary of State Wojciech Gerwel paid an urgent visit to the Republic of Armenia to deliver essential material aid to refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh and express support for Armenia as it faces an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.

In an election held on 8 June 2023 during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, 177 of its Member States chose Poland to join the Economic and Social Council for 2024-2026.

On 4 May, a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in the format of development cooperation ministers (FAC Development) was held in Brussels. The most important items on the agenda included the global consequences of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the reform of multilateral development banks, and support for Ukraine.

Poland and the UK will build two major temporary villages in the west and east of Ukraine to provide vital housing to those forced from their homes by barbaric Russian attacks. The UK has announced up to £10 million in funding to support the new Polish-UK partnership, which will deliver temporary shelters, energy supplies and assistance to those who have lost their homes since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Since 2004, on the initiative of the MFA, opinions polls have been carried out to asses Poles’ knowledge about development assistance and our society’s readiness to provide such help. In December 2022, Kantar Public (Mantle Polska sp. z o.o.) conducted an opinion poll titled “Poles on development assistance” which included a set of questions about the respondents’ attitude towards assistance to war-affected Ukraine.

Moldova has been one of Polish Aid's priority countries for years. Russia's invasion of neighbouring Ukraine has increased the importance of development assistance for this country. Polish companies, research and development institutes and universities support Moldova through projects carried out in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).