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Give a HelpfulHand
The end of the year and the approaching holidays are a special time when it is worth sharing goodness and helping those who need support the most.
We encourage you to support those in need during this exceptional time!
The campaign draws attention to the need for books in every person's life. Reading supports development, especially at an early stage of life. It helps to reach full potential, discover talents, opens to the world and other people, helps to achieve mental well-being. Access to books is extremely important. This also applies to owning them, at home. This is still one of the main barriers to popularizing reading.
You can help...
the youngest and youth to cope with difficulties.
equalize children's opportunities for a better future and development of their competences.
support children's mental resilience.
The tool that allows this is reading!
The Foundation is based on reading studies, which indicate a large scale of reading exclusion in our country. In Poland, 20% families do not have a single book at home, another 10% have only school textbooks. This means that 30% of our fellow citizens are left without a single book to read*. This is often related to their financial situation.
Owning books is very important in making friends with them. In addition, research confirms that teenagers who had at least 80 books at home achieve better results at school than children from homes where there are no books**. Contact with them is also important in local libraries, local centres and community centres.
#PLEASE give a helpful book
Make a donation and we'll give kids the books they dream of!
Pass on a helpful... book!
Let's give children a chance and make sure books reach those in need! Every donation helps!
Who do we help?
Help us deliver books to those who will benefit from a better future despite their limitations.
Thanks to contributions and donations, the Foundation can reach people excluded from book culture and, at the same time, those who are in greatest need. The packages are delivered primarily to families under the care of Social Welfare Centres and community centres, as well as to children from children's homes and families with refugee experience..
This year, the specific purpose of the collection is to help areas affected by flooding.
How can you help?
– make a donation to buy books for children – by supporting the Foundation’s activities you help reach non-readers who are in need
– organize a collection in your classroom, library, school
– invite your employees and co-workers to the department, organize a meeting in the company
- share promotional materials GIVE US A HELPFUL BOOK, share information about the campaign on social media, among family and friends
* Research by the National Library, The State of Reading in Poland, 2020.
** Joanna Sikora, MDREvans, Jonathan Kelley, Scholarly Culture: How Books in Adolescence Enhance Adult Literacy, Numeracy and Technology Skills in 31 Societies, Social Science Research, , 2019, pp. 1-15.