Projects

Fundacja Lapigua supports the local center Błonie4 Punkt Wydawania Pomocy Osobom w Kryzysie Uchodźczym in Zamość.
The center supplies Ukrainian refugees with food packages, hygienic products and clothing.

Lapigua offers both financial support and support in kind for the Center.

Since the spring of 2023 the center is located in the premises at ul. Sienkiewicza 3 in Zamość, which Fundacja FreeLING leases from the Town of Zamość. The center has grown into a  real Community Center, where we organize various integration and fundraising activities. You can check out our activities on the dedicated website (in Polish and Ukrainian). 

We have been supporting the project "Health Patrons" since it's very beginning and have seen it grow into a solid non-governmental organization.

We have financed the medical treatment of several patients and the purchase of a robotic hand for the rehab center REART and will continue our support.

Since summer 2022 we have been cooperating with Children Camp Edelweis and the Ukrainian charity Fund BT Travers to finance summer camps for children affected by the war in their country.

At Rancho Edelweis, the children find a safe place, where they can forget the war and be children again. 

Thanks to our donators both in 2022 and in 2023 we sponsored camps for several groups.

There is always a high need for medical supplies. Whenever we receive this type of aid, we assess where best to deliver so it can be used most effectively.

For some time now we have been supplying volunteers and ngo's with hygienic sets, containing basis hygiene products for war victims in hospitals.

We also offer regular support for the Psychiatric Hospital in Lutsk, which has to cope with a chronic lack of beds and supplies for an excess of patients. The hospital helps both civilians and military. 

From the end of February till the end of April we operated a transit dormitory for mothers with infants and small children at the Ambrozja Wedding House in Zamość.

Thanks to the help of the wonderful owners, Elżbieta and Janusz Sereda, we could accommodate about 300 people and provide them with a comfortable transient stay. Ysing our broad network of contacts all over the continent, we helped many of them to find a permanent place to stay in Poland or other European countriesand to get there.

We provided:

• a comfortable, warm place to sleep with beds, duvets, pillows and bed linen,

• toilets,

• bathrooms with shower, 

• access to a kettle, water, coffee, tea and snacks,

• hot meals,

• play corner for children.

Information about the dormitory is also available in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish on the website www.lapigua.pl.

In 2022 we have offered logistic support for individuals and organisations wanting to transport humanitarian goods and equipment into Ukraine. We used a broad network of contacts in Ukraine to get the goods to the right places and people.
We put part of the warehouse of the company HARS in Hrubieszów and storage capacity in Zamość at your disposal. We still support volunteers and small ngo to collect and dispatch humanitarian aid.

On Sunday, April 24th, we organized an eastern dinner for Ukrainian refugees, host families and volunteers from the region of Zamość.  The dinner was held at the dormitory in Dom Weselny Ambrozja, Sitaniec/Łapiguz 475.

We prepared Ukrainian borszcz and our guest brought cakes and salad and we had a wonderful time chatting and exchanging experiences.

Provide access to clean drinking water. That was the goal of the project “Safe water for UA”. 

The project is an initiative of the Ukrainian organization Turistitchne Tovaristvo Karpatski Stezky, the Polish ngo Lapigua Foundation and the Polish company Green Deal, the official distributor of water purification products JAVEL in Poland. 

These three organizations have already cooperated to dispatch supplies of water purification tablets and water filters to hospitals, refugee centers and military units in Ukraine. As the need is high, they decided to give more structure to the initiative and start the project “Safe water for UA”.

All raised funds were used to buy water cleaning tablets and equipment at discount prices, offered by Green Deal and its partners. All goods were delivered by volunteers of Turistitchne Tovaristvo Karpatski Stezky to both civilian and military facilities in Ukraine. Lapigua Foundation offers organizational and financial support for the project. 

On Saturday, 16 July we organized a Polish-Ukrainian Picknick with

• sausages from the fire

• home-made cupcakes

• a jumping castle for the kids

• a lottery to collect some money for the support center

We had a wonderful time!!!

In July and August we organizad three fundraising concerts in Belgium, that were a real succes. 

We would like to thank everybody who joined in the organization of the concerts for their efforts, and especially to the Octet Ensemble and the Ensemble Jedutun. 

We also thank all guests and music lovers who attended the concerts and gave so many generous gifts for our projects.

On Saturday, 27 August we organized a Polish-Ukrainian Picknick with

• sausages from the fire

• home-made cupcakes

• games for the youngest ones

• a book fair

• planting of a "friendship tree"

We had a wonderful time!!!

Late 2022, we collected candles for Ukraina together with our partners:

Partners of the project

• Lubelska Fundacja For Help,

• Fundacja Lapigua,

• firma EKO-DAM Lublin

• Zespół Szkół mundurowych im. Jana Koszczyca z Kazimierza Dolnego,

• Pracownia plastyczna DDR,

• Radio Lublin!

A little bit of light and hope in this dark times.

On the third and fourth of December the Association Lokalnie i Globalnie and Lapigua Foundation organized a charity stand at the Christmas Fair in Zamość, to raise money for support for Ukraine. We sold wonderful christmas decorations that were delivered by Polish and Ukrainian volunteers.
Thanks to everyone who helped us to fill the stand with so many beautiful, hand-crafted wonders.

Thanks to our network of volunteers we delivered almost 100 fruit trees and shrubs to 24 families in the Chernihov region.

The trees and shrubs will replace the orchards that were destroyed as a result of the war fare in the region.

Thanks to our generous sponsor we can finance dental treatment for the handicapped children of a Ukrainian orphanage living in the resort Sanatorium im. Janusza Korczaka in Krasnobród.

In 2023  the Association Lokalnie i Globalnie and Lapigua Foundation organized several charity stands to raise money for support for Ukraine:

• 25th of March at the event "Women for Women" organized by Lokalnie i Globalnie,

• 2th of April at the Easter Fair organized by the Cultural Center of Zamość,

• 2th of June at the Hetman's Fair in Zamość, accompanied by a painting workshop, inspired by the Ukrainian artist Iryna Martyn.

We sold wonderful handmade decorations that were delivered by Polish and Ukrainian volunteers.

On Saturday, 22th of July, we organized a charity fair combined with an artistic workshop for painting traditional Ukrainian wooden figures in Yavoriv-style. Regardless of the windy weather, many little artists visited our stand.

On Thursday 31 of August we organized a Polish-Ukrainian integration meeting on the premises of the Wedding Hall Ambrozja.

The children had lots of fun with games and arts & crafts and of course we fried sausages on the bonfire.

At the same time we organized our first culinary workshop "Sun in a jar" in the kitchen of the wedding hal. We prepared preservers for winter with traditional Polish and Ukranian recipes. This way we also produced supplies for the Support Center Błonie 4, where we distribute food packages for the most needed.

The culinary workshop was part of our project "Błonie helps in a culinary way", financed by the National Freedom Institute - Centrum for the Development of Civil Society.