"SAFETY PIN" (AGRAFKA)

Scholarships Programme

"...the one who is fascinated and committed to his goals is able to stir up the enthusiasm in any other individual and, consequently, gain support and active assistance"
Nikolaus Enkelmann

In the 90`s only 1 out of 140 children from rural areas entered Universities. Half of the group of 19-24 olds derive from villages and small towns; among university students they constitute only 2%.

Daniel is 16 years old; lives in a small rural locality, struggling with the severe unemployment. He is a very good student, interested in history and polish language; has been succesful in numerous competitions; he writes, edits the school paper; in his household the per head income is 155 zł ; for two years he is the grantee of the Safety pin Program.

The Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland is a reliable institution, successfully implementing programs responding to actual social needs.
We also have experience in implementing youth-oriented programs, one of them being The "Safety Pin" Scholarship Program.
Through the Safety Pin we support young, talented yet poverty-stricken students from villages and small towns. We would like to provide them not only with financial support but participation in training courses, workshops and exchanges to ensure their complex development hardly achievable in local environments.

That is why, apart from financial support, in 2003 we will organize innovative workshop session for the Safety Pin grantees: with the help of experts (psychologists, sociologists) they shall discover their talents, learn about self-presentation, assertiveness, interpersonal communication; they shall prepare CV and attend creativity workshops. They will meet outstanding individuals: scientists, social leaders, artists. To sum up the workshop session all attendants will draft individual development strategies.
In order to organize such workshop we need financial support. We encourage you to support this idea and provide young people with the unusual chance to develop their skills.
We have prepared an offer addressing corporate and individual donors that included many options of involvement and providing support for Safety Pin participants. The offer is also available at our website: http://www.filantropia.org.pl/text/english_offer.pdf
We ensure partner cooperation and professionalism based on experience. Donations are tax-deductible. We offer complex, professional service as well as legal and fiscal consultations concerning donations.
Until now, we have granted 31 scholarships for the total amount 62 000 zl.

The whole amount received from donors is distributed to scholarships. Agrafka/Safety Pin Fund is administered on a voluntary basis.

In order to become Safety Pin donor, please transfer your contribution to the Academy?s bank account. For more information, please contact: Aleksander Wasiak-Radoszewski, Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland, phone 622 01 22, 622 02 08, e-mail: alekw@filantropia.org.pl

Grantees of the Safety Pin Scholarship Programme in the school year 202/2003:

1. Oktawian Anuszkiewicz (resident in Domaszków, age: 17, nominated by the Snieżnik Massive Community Foundation from Bystrzyca Kłodzka, charge of the orphanage; interests include: exact sciences, champion of the 100-field draughts),
2. Daniel Działa (Bieliny, age 16, nominated by the Community Foundation from Kielce; interested in literature, theatre, English and Russian languages),
3. Grzegorz Golonka (Kielce, age: 17 , nominated by the Community Foundation from Kielce, physics, electronics),
4. Maciej Kanik (Czarna, age 13, nominated by the Community Foundation of Rzeszów; exceptional piano talent),
5. Krzysztof Koman (Biłgoraj, age: 16, nominated by the Community Foundation of the Biłgoraj Region; interested in painting and history of art),
6.
Jakub Kowalski (Racibórz, age: 17 lat, nominated by the Racibórz Community Foundation; interests include; genetics, molecular biology, informatics and literature),

7. Aleksandra Kuna (Frampol, age: 10, nominated by the Community Foundation of the Biłgoraj Region; exceptional chess talent),
8. Piotr Marek (Rogóżno, age: 18, nominated by the Rzeszów Community Foundation; informatics, programming),
9. Łukasz Michałowski (Glinnik, age: 18, nominated by the Community Foundation of Tomaszów Mazowiecki; interested in foreign languages: English and Russian),
10. Gabriela Rubin (Racibórz, age: 15, nominated by the Racibórz Community Foundation; interested in drawing and literature),
11. Grzegorz Sikorski (Lądek Zdrój, age: 14, nominated by the Snieżnik Massive Community Foundation from Bystrzyca Kłodzka, interested in painting),
12. Paweł Skrzyński (Rzeszów, age: 17; nominated by the Community Foundation from Rzeszów; interested in: mathematics, phisics, chemistry, informatics),
13. Piotr Żółtak (Nidzica, age: 18, nominated by the Nidzica Comunity Foundation; interested in history),
14. Filip Żukiewicz (Szczecinek, age: 16, nominated by the Community Foundation from Szczecinek; interested in physics and astronomy).

Bank account of the "Agrafka" scholarship fund:
Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland, Poznanska St. 16 apt.7, 00-680 Warsaw
Account no.: 13701037-3500242-27005-1203-111
Bank BISE S.A. , 3rd Branch in Warsaw, Dubois St. 5a, 00-184 Warsaw
tel. (+48) 22 860-13-01
SWIFT CODE: BISPPLPW