Polish aid

In 2020, the Polish Medical Mission Association implemented Module II of the two-year project entitled “Myanmar – medical and training activities and screening tests in the Irrawaddy Delta”, thus continuing the cooperation with Wakema Township Association, started in 2016.

After two years of cooperation, the Centre for Education Development, commissioned by the Polish Ministry of National Education, has completed a development project for Georgia.

- Poland does not forget about those in need, not only in our country but also around the world. Today, we are sending another humanitarian aid transport to Iraq in response to a great demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic and a war with the so-called Islamic State. Our intention is to support the medical services there in providing the necessary help to the inhabitants of Iraqi Kurdistan, - emphasised Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Paweł Jabłoński speaking about the aid dispatched today in coordination with the Ministry of National Defence, its subordinate air units, and the Material Reserves Agency. As part of the Poland’s relief effort for Iraq, the Material Reserves Agency has airlifted blankets, surgical gowns, towels and sheets which will reach the needy.

The activities of the Redemptoris Missio Foundation included the expansion, refurbishment, and rearrangement of the Holy Family Children’s Centre and Mission in Kithatu for COVID-19 prevention.

In cooperation with the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, the Main School of Fire Service in Warsaw implemented a two-year project from Polish Aid funds, which significantly contributed to the development of the system of education of rescue services in Georgia.

The Good Factory Foundation coordinator talks about the origins and progress of the project entitled “Increasing educational and professional opportunities for young women – modernisation of vocational schools in Dakar and Joal, Senegal”.

The Council of Ministers approved a resolution to adopt the Multiannual Development Cooperation Programme 2021-2030 – Solidarity for Development, submitted by the minister of foreign affairs.

In 2020, the Lebanese faced more challenges and problems than people living in other countries in the world. The COVID-19 pandemic and its effects have aggravated the economic crisis that Lebanon has been engulfed in since 2019.

The project by the Polish Embassy in Tbilisi was about furnishing a shoemaker workshop run by the Employment Union of the People with Disabilities in Georgia.

As part of its Polish Aid programme, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is involved in developing education in Tanzania. With the project “Improving the quality of veterinary sciences education for young people in Tanzania through better teaching conditions,” the Foundation Science for Development supports the activities of two centres: the Livestock Training Agency – Tengeru and the Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro, the only agricultural university in Tanzania.