Children living in the favelas often witness violence. Growing up in constant fear means that they learn more slowly, fail at school and leave school prematurely. Kulczyk Foundation supported the Projeto Uerê school, in which Brazilian children in need receive help and professional support.
46,000 copies of our educational materials published in 2018 were distributed among teachers who used them to conduct lessons for children and youth in Poland. Topics covered in the lesson plans relate to universal values that are close to the hearts of people around the world.
Young people from around the world took part in the #MyFreedomDay campaign. The goal of the yearly campaign is to raise awareness about modern-day slavery. In cooperation with the Kulczyk Foundation, the American CNN station carried out a global broadcast of the campaign run in Poland for the first time.
- “Social change is not made on the basis of numbers. It is launched by going out to people, trying to understand how they live and how they make certain decisions,” said Catalina Escobar, founder of the Juanfe Foundation, Colombia, who delivered a lecture at the 3rd Expert Forum "Hate! How to teach empathy in a time of hatred", organized by Kulczyk Foundation.