FUNDACJA ISKIERKA praca

Doświadczanie radości pomagania dzieciom z chorobą nowotworową i ich rodzinom.Skuteczność, transparentność, pasja życia!

The ISKIERKA Foundation is a Polish non-profit charity organisation, since 2006 developing systems providing financial, psychological and social support to children with cancer and to their families. Our Foundation provides care to over 500 children undergoing cancer treatment mainly in four specialist centres in Silesia in Poland: University Hospital No 1 in Zabrze, Upper Silesian Child Health Centre in Katowice, the Dr E. Hanke Paediatrics and Oncology Centre in Chorzów and Clinical Provincial Hospital No. 2 in Rzeszow. We deliver nationwide projects in Poland and provide financial aid also to children treated in other medical institutions in Poland and abroad. What makes us stand out? – WE ARE CLOSE TO THE CHILDREN. They need individual attention. We know them by their names, their histories and their dreams. When we support them in their treatment and rehabilitation processes, we look at the world with child’s eyes, but we provide them with help that only adults can assure. The Chairwoman of our Foundation is Mrs Jolanta Czernicka-Siwecka, animator of social changes, whose son also was fighting with leukaemia. – WE ARE BREAKING THE STEREOTYPES. We are not dazzling with fear and suffering. Ill children need to feel like they were healthy and have the right to happy childhood. Together with ISKIERKA they sail, climb mountains, or form an orchestra and give concerts. We stimulate their passion for life. We show them that life is worth living. – PASSION FOR LIFE AND QUALITY OF LIFE. We are creating friendly environments in hospitals, as they are becoming children’s second homes. We overhaul and renovate children’s wards and buy medical equipment. We also make sure there is appropriate space for playing, studying and the development of individual talents. We show the families how to cope with their lives upturned by their child’s disease – how to turn a traumatic experience into constructive actions.