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I'm Radek Brzózka, hello. Let's make a short stop at the Voluntering Station.
We will meet here the people who devote their time and energy to help others
with the support of the companies they work for.
For the employees of Citi Handlowy such a special day is the Citi's Global Community Day
And Citi Handlowy is the Polish leader in volunteering.
I'm curious, Darek, what have you done to earn such a title?
Well, just in this year we've completed 120 projects for local communities under Citi's Global Community Day
And there are more than 10.000 beneficiaries of your program.
There were 18.000 beneficiaries of the program this year and about 100.000 in total.
Did you take part in these projects? Are you a volunteer?
Every year I take part in Citi Global Community Day
This year, I managed to complete a project called "How to achieve success in life"
We invited young people to one of Warsaw's cultural centers
and organized meetings with people who could advise them
on how to achieve success in life.
You keep mentioning Citi's Global Community Day
What is it? - It's an initiative conceived by Citi Group worldwide
It's one day in a year when we execute our projects.
Such help is, of course, given selflessly but you do get something in return.
We often do it for the little children. A child's smile is really precious for us.
It is the best reward. - Well, I wish you to see as many smiles as possible
in these next few years. Thank you for the talk.
The volunteers from TP group found a way to bring fun and joy to
pediatric wards in 22 Polish hospitals already. They create fairy tale corners,
among them Beata and Jarek, you are the authors, the makers
of three such places already, and you're working on the fourth,
what are the fairy tale corners?
The fairy tale corners are colorful common rooms in the grey, gloomy hospitals,
places in which sick children spend most of their time, playing and studying.
Jarek, such common rooms are created by people who wouldn't meet each other in an office,
and here they have to grab brushes and other tools, and work together.
What is this experience like? - The last corner was made by over 20 people.
It's a time when people get to know each other. Every day
at work we pass each other, we don't know each other
and at this time anyone can get to know everyone else...
I see your commitment, joy and the sparkle you get when you talk about it, so
thank you very much and see you when the next corners appear in Polish hospitals.
Helping becomes a habit.
As a part of project called "Yes, I help" organized by Provident, over 200 projects
were completed and I would like to talk about them with my guests. Barbara, you worked in these
from the very beginning. - Yes, it's the tenth anniversary of employee
volunteer work and the "Yes, I help" project. I've been working with an orphanage for four years now,
it's in Rzeszów. For four years we've made children's dreams come true.
We take them on trips, we spend time with them teaching them to swim,
organizing holidays. - I've heard that you, Rafał, talked all your
friends into helping the St. John foundation. - I managed to involve our entire team, our whole department.
- And what do you do? - We carry out minor repair work, cleaning.
Fingers crossed for this year's projects and good luck with the next year, thank you.
- Thank you. - During the summer flood PTC employers
hesitate for a moment and helped the residents of Słubice who were affected by the flood.
Director, how was the assistance of your staff organized? - First of all, quickly and efficiently.
We proposed five days of leave, travel expenses and, what is most important,
on-site coordination. Employees from Łódź organized additional fund-raising,
appliances, food, toys, also money. A very interesting initiative was undertaken by
Civil Defence, a unit organized by the society. - One of the people who worked there was Kasia.
How do you remember the first, dramatic days? - I saw gratitude in the eyes of the people we helped,
I felt like we motivated them not to give up. None of the volunteers, and there were many of us, felt tired.
We did what we could to do anything. No matter what, just to help.
There was a lot of work but, God forbid, if it happened again, we would do it again.
Let's hope it won't, and I hope that the solutions developed by PTC
inspire you as well. Thank you. But business volunteering is not just
these spectacular actions but also the every day work of many employees, ones like Adam.
I know that you help children all over the country, making their dreams come true, not only
by giving them sweets but also executing various projects, as mentioned, nation-wide.
That's correct. Lately, with my Wedel team we built a gazebo and a place for fires
so that children from the orphanage could spend their free time there.
- Was it a big team? - It was 12 people from different departments,
so I managed to get them together and after that we stayed friends, we get along better.
The gazebo is built, fires are lit next to it in the place prepared, I take it
you already have ideas for the next projects. - Of course, we have lots of ideas, my team and I.
I hope you'll get them all done. Thank you so much for talking. Bye.
Ladies and gentlemen, for many of my interlocutors today, volunteering has become
an adventure of a lifetime, a life challenge. Many of them became very close with those they helped.
I wonder, director, how does the work of people like Kasia influence the life of your pupils?
Kasia's help is the interesting, fun life of my pupils. Thanks to help of the volunteers
we can go to rehabilitation, to the mountains, we can go the theatre, the cinema,
there are many things, a lot of joy, of emotions. The next thing is integration,
bank employers visit the children, the children visit them,
and the third thing is that the children feel appreciated, they see that what they do is
important and it's truly beautiful.
And how did this adventure start for you, Kasia? - It started with organizing charity auctions,
We made works which were sold on charity auctions, prepared for our customers and employees.
Do you remember your first visit to the facility? - I felt joy. I saw how my own work,
made with my hands, my heart makes the children happy. For me, it was a great success.
I met with my interlocutors on the Volunteering Station so it's time to meet the stationmaster
the head of the Volunteer Centre, Dariusz Pietrowski. We saw some fantastic examples of employee volunteer work,
and I wonder how it can be defined and distinguished from other types.
I don't think there is a difference. In the classical voluntary work and the employee work,
it's all about the people, their ideas, their will to help. The company gives support,
not hinders, often gives financial support
by giving the space for the passions of these people to be realized.
Do you see a change, a development in voluntary work?
We've observed the interest of companies,
different companies, big, small, Polish, and with foreign capital
the interest in this kind of activity. It's part of the general trend of corporate social responsibility
and the employee voluntary work is part of this trend.
It's expanding. We keep getting signals, questions of whether and how to join the program, how to start it.
The last, the best example for us is
the interest in the implementation of the program by a big company, RWE Poland,
who just entered this world and is already chasing the leaders by executing their fantastic projects.
Let's hope then that the voluntary work fantastic projects.
in all its forms develops even more rapidly in the coming years.
I won't keep you from your work anymore, stationmaster, goodbye.
I thank you for your attention and I hope we will meet on the Volunteering Station.
See you!