Who are the children's charges?
Every day we come face to face with the problems faced by children and adolescents. Each child or teenager in our charge carries a huge burden. We get to know their stories gradually, building trust and rapport, which are the basis of our work. We learn about the difficult stories of children and their families, we learn about their daily life, we know what they face. We want to share with you not only our successes and pleasant time with children, but also our daily challenges of pedagogical work.
Who do we help? Learn about the stories of the wards
It is up to us adults to further the lives of socially excluded children and young people. Wings Care Homes exist thanks to the regular commitment of donors and can only exist because of them.
My name is Maciek and I am 8 years old. Every evening my mother invites her friends over and they drink alcohol and make noise all night. I then take my little sisters and we read together or play something. I also have an older brother, but he hasn’t lived with us for a long time. Mom says he ran away from home. I don’t want to live here either. I sell my homemade jewelry at the local bazaar. After school, I like to come to the Foundation because I can do my homework there in peace and play board games.
My name is Basia. I am 12 years old. My mother often makes me take care of the house and cook for the whole family. I rarely get to go to school because my mom works all day, so I have to stay with my younger siblings. I don’t want to, but I know I have to do it. Mom has strange friends…I’m afraid of them. I feel sad because I don’t have a friend and my schoolmates laugh at me and say I’m a nanny and a cleaner.
I am Tom. Ever since I can remember my parents have been drinking alcohol every day. What I dislike most is when they invite their friends over, because then the parties go on into the night. I can’t sleep, and in the morning I don’t want to get up for class because I’m tired. At home, I don’t have my own place, so I prefer to walk around the yards with my friends. Sometimes something will happen. Something bad. That’s what happened recently and that’s why I have a case in court. I’m 13 years old and I don’t know what it will end up with.
I am Marta and I am 14 years old. I have four siblings, the youngest one annoys me terribly. I dream of having my own room. Unfortunately, it will probably never happen, because we barely fit in a two-room apartment with the whole family. My bed stands in the kitchen. I don’t want to sit at home, so I often spend time with my girlfriends. We take walks in the yards or sit on the wall behind the school. Some smoke cigarettes or drink beer. I don’t like it, so they laugh at me and lately they tease me that I’m afraid of boys. After school I come to the Foundation. I like being here. My uncle helps me with my lessons, sometimes we bake a cake together or go jumping in the trampoline hall.
The name and age have been changed to protect the child’s privacy.
One in five children don't have their own bed, lack of homework space
According to our many years of observation and experience, currently the most serious problems of parents and guardians are: lack or low level of parenting skills, unemployment, passive, demanding attitude, low level of professional competence, low life and career aspirations, alcoholism, violence.
The main problems of the children and adolescents in the charge are:
- Lack of positive support from parents and guardians,
- educational backlog,
- low level of social skills,
- low self-esteem,
- A low level of life and career aspirations combined with a low awareness of the possibility of choosing one’s own life path,
- aggression.
Foundation homes are places full of acceptance, love and tolerance
The Joanna Radziwill Care Wings Foundation runs day homes for children from families with very low material status and difficult living situations, in need of regular support from educators and psychologists.
The idea of the Homes is to equalize educational, educational, emotional and social opportunities for children. It’s a space in which the children in their charge feelsafe and happy, discover passions and interests, learn various forms of leisure activities, catch up on development, raise their self-esteem. Because everyone has the right to be themselves and develop properly.
