Tag: humanitarian aid

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Nearly 100 Polish books have been donated to the Polish School in Lille in response to a request by the Dzień Dobry Lille Association. The donation, provided by the Znak publishing house and worth more than PLN 5,000, includes children’s literature, travel books, cookbooks, popular science books, and more. Located in northern France, the Ignacy […]

On Saturday, 8 February 2025, Marcin Mycielski and Natalia Melnychenko, joined by fellow supporters of the Foundation, took part in a remarkable charity concert held under the patronage of the Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF). The event, organised by our friend and volunteer Grzegorz Madejski at the Municipal Centre of Culture in Zambrów, raised over PLN […]

As part of our ongoing programme to support Ukrainian veterans, we travelled to Ukraine for the second time together with representatives of the Poznań-based company Aether Biomedical. This time, in addition to revisiting clinics and hospitals in Lviv, Khmelnytskyi and Kyiv, we extended our mission further east – to medical facilities in Poltava and Kharkiv, […]

Critical challenges surrounding privacy and financial rights were at the forefront of our interventions at this year’s Warsaw Human Dimension Conference (WHDC), Europe’s leading forum for human rights dialogue organized by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Below is a brief overview of our interventions, the appeals we made to policymakers, and […]

Since February 2024, with dozens of humanitarian missions to Ukraine we’ve delivered millions of Euros worth of aid – both to civilians and Ukraine’s defenders on the front line. Simultaneously we’ve supported thousands of women and children seeking shelter in Poland. Now, finally, we found a way to also help the heroes who lost the […]

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have lost their limbs. Many of them, like Alexander Kulyk, a Lviv native and former entrepreneur, are now undergoing rehabilitation at the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Centre in Lviv. “It happened near Bachmut, when I was launching a drone and was […]

Between 2 and 6 September 2024, we carried out another humanitarian mission to the frontline in Ukraine. This time, we visited Kyiv, Cherkasy, and the area around Pokrovsk, where some of the most intense fighting with Russian occupiers has taken place in recent months. As part of the mission, we delivered military aid worth nearly […]

Artur Deska, a one-man army, has passed away. A legendary Polish volunteer in Ukraine, who advocated for reconciliation and cooperation between our countries. A romantic at heart, a positivist in action. Not only our friend, but also our advisor, whom we met during the Euromaidan in 2013. It was he who inspired one of the […]

As a high-level introduction, Lyudmyla Kozlovska founded the Open Dialogue Foundation (“ODF”) in 2009 with the goal of protecting human rights, supporting democracy, and assisting those who are subject to political persecution in Eastern Europe. She also founded the Building True Change Coalition (“BTC Coalition”) to address financial exclusion, political oppression and deliver humanitarian aid, while promoting the role […]

Since 24 February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, we have been doing everything to support our friends and neighbours. Thanks to your support our aid has included, among others, 110 transports with which we have delivered 78 931 pieces of protective and life-saving equipment! Here is what we have taken to Ukraine so far: See also: […]

The Russian prosecutor’s office has declared the Open Dialogue Foundation, which operates in Poland, undesirable. The independent Mediazona portal wrote that the decision was made on 14 February, but it is only now that the Russian Justice Ministry has included the organisation on a special register. The portal’s journalists said it was unclear what specifically […]

Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has included the Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF) on its list of “undesirable organisations” in the country. The Russian Prosecutor’s Office found that the Polish foundation poses “a threat to the foundations of the constitutional order of the Russian Federation.” “I am only surprised that it has occurred only now,” commented Chair […]

Read the full article: polskieradio.pl Read also: Open Dialogue Foundation is on the list of “undesirable” organisations in Russia (March 26, 2024) In other media: PolskieRadio24: Russia put a Polish foundation as undesirable. Decision by Ministry of Justice (March 26, 2024) Dziennik: Open Dialogue Foundation on Russian list of undesirable organisations (March 26, 2024) WNP: Russia: Poland-based Open […]

The Open Dialogue Foundation, founded in Poland, has been placed on the list of undesirable organisations in Russia, it was announced on Monday by the Russian Ministry of Justice. “This is an unusual form of recognition of our activities,” commented the organisation, which advocates for human rights and democracy. “Our management, Lyudmyla Kozlovska, Bartosz Kramek […]