Community News from Poland

When two American School of Warsaw students decided they wanted to give something back to the Warsaw community that has been their home for the past few years, a charity dance recital seemed a logical choice for them.

On April 24-25 the Foundation for Corporate Social Responsibility took a group of its member company executives on an annual tour of some of the schools where it helps feed more than 2,500 children. The local heads of some of Poland’s largest foreign investors got a personal view of how their companies have been helping one of Poland’s poorest regions – the Zachodniopomorskie province’s rural areas.

A small group of Brits and their Polish friends are campaigning to save an historic narrow-gauge railway line about 50 kilometres north of Łódź threatened by local government indifference and new development plans. The group, known as British-Polish Railway and Industrial Heritage Partnership, believes the railway is an asset worth preserving, not ballast to be dumped.

On April 10, elementary students from the American School of Warsaw presented the Children's Hospice Fund of Warsaw (Fundacja Warsazawskie Hospicjum dla Dzieci) a check for PLN 26,514.50.