We are proud to share that from the 1st of January till the 31st of December 2018, 68 persons were reconnected via Barka IE to their home countries, 5 people was reconnected to Barka Community in Poznan where he’s in process of rehabilitation and job training.
The nationality breakdown of reconnected individuals:
42 – Polish citizen
12 – Latvian citizen
6 – Romanian citizen
5 – Lithuanian citizen
2 – Hungarian citizen
1 – Bulgarian citizen
Ewa Sadowska of Barka Ireland took part in a scientific conference “Current challanges in social policy. Poles in the EU. Homelessness and migrations”. organised by Jan Długosz Academy in Czestochowa on the 3rd of December 2015.
The conference highlighted a collection of good practises and reports of succesful civil society projects in the area of vulnerable migrants’ integration. Scholars shared the latest scientific research on migration of Poles in the EU. A numer of discussions were focused on new methods of streetworking. Barka Foundation has been considered as the organisation which introduced streetworking in Poland in 1992 by sending first patrols of street-workers (who themselves overcame homelessness) to the streets of Poznan.
Ewa Sadowska shared the experiences of working with vulnerable CEE citizens in Ireland and the UK in partnership with local authorities.
Interesting was the last panel discussion during which three individuals who returned with Barka from the Netherlands and the UK, shared their stories.
BARKA Foundation has won the 2nd prize (Civil Society Award) from the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels for the project of vocational training centres for social integration supporting the unemployed people to return to labour market.
Uprzejmie informuję, że w dniu 6 lipca br. krótką wizytę oficjalną w Irlandii złoży Pan Grzegorz Schetyna, Minister Spraw Zagranicznych RP, w związku z zaplanowanymi na ten dzień polsko-irlandzkimi konsultacjami politycznymi z Panem Charlesem Flanaganem, Ministrem Spraw Zagranicznych i Handlu Irlandii. Read more
Tomasz Sadowski, chairman of Barka Foundation for Mutual Help, was admitted to the Council of Elders of the Royal Tribe of Pokomo in Kenya. For the first time in 400 years, the white man has been adopted to the Council of Elders. A ceremony took place on the 5th of March in the Barka centre in Poznan, Poland. For this occassion the king of the Pokomo Dr Makorani-a-Mungase VII paid a special visit.
On the 25th of February 2015 at a festive gala at the European Parliament, Tomasz Sadowski and Ewa Sadowska received European Citizens Award on behalf of the Barka Foundation. The award was presented by Maired Mcguinnes, vice president of the European Parliament. Read more
On the 18th of February 2015 in Mumbai during the World CSR Congress and the World Day of Corporate Social Responsibility, Tomasz Sadowski chairman of Barka Foundation for Mutual help was presented with Leadership Award on Social Innovation. The prize is a statuette and a diploma. Read more
Dear Friends, Barka UK are honoured to be part of an extraordinary initiative : the auction of Jack White’s piano. This is a piano which served the White Stripes to record their ground-breaking album “Elephant”. Read more
