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2024 Report

In a world of poly-crisis, including the multifaceted refugee crises that are slowly growing into our everyday life, it seems particularly important to prepare solutions that will generate a series of method-prototypes, reliably built constructions of perpetual change. Not once created but constantly modelled, deconstructed and recreated coupled up with tools capable of responding to the here and now and of course possible to re-format in the near future.

We think about it every day. Every day when we open the doors of our organisation and Baobab – a space to meet, build relationships and in the event of intense crises – to initiate rapid intervention and model new methods of coping.

In 2024, the Baobab community centre became the heart of that mechanism. Capacity and efficiency of which may be and is possible only when all the municipal systems adapt to the reality of migrants being a part of the city. The centre itself is one of the city gates, open, hospitable and understanding.

[Anna Dąbrowska President of Homo Faber Association]

 

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Some statistics. In 2024:

  • Baobab was visited, similarly to 2023, by almost 20,000 people;
  • Our clients dealt with 8,891 administrative matters at the front desk;
  • 1690 times our intercultural assistants accompanied people to medical, hospital and administrative visits;
  • the team of psychologists held 1,423 consultations with children and 678 with adults;
  • We travelled with our refugee services to cities and towns outside Lublin 38 times;
  • our social workers took on 821 cases supporting people in collective facilities;
  • our partners from the Rule of Law Institute Foundation provided 2,000 legal consultations;
  • Our GBV team intervened 59 times in cases of gender-based violence and domestic violence.

But that's not all:

  • we developed first-contact counselling for people experiencing violence motivated by prejudice - Anti-discrimination HUB;
  • we conducted meetings and training for teachers in the region on how to respond to peer violence bullying;
  • for the third time, together with the European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk, we invited everyone to a 9-month course at the Flying University of Human Rights;
  • as part of the scholarship programme, we supported 50 talented refugee children and 10 adults in becoming independent, creating their own activities and opening businesses.

We welcomed people to Lublin and helped build relationships:

  • Together with new residents of Lublin, we took our "first steps", walked around the city,
  • met at the table;
  • taught Polish during annual and summer courses;
  • met in workshops to work together - repairing in the spirit of recycling and reusing and creating good quality things;
  • organized meetings around the Multicultural Library, lent and donated books;
  • also networked leaders from three editions of the Intercultural School for Leaders; created a safe space for young people with different identities;

We built the capacity of our team:

  • 12 people from our team graduated from the Lublin Trainers' School and thus became professional intercultural trainer pairs;
  • We went on longer trips together 3 times - study visits, learning from others and building networks in Poland and Europe;
  • We had regular supervisions, taking care of our own well-being;
  • We also went into the wilderness to spend time together as a team and talk not about work!

We were an advocacy voice:

  • As part of the Civic Dialogue Commission, we continued the preparation of a framework strategic document for the city that had begun a year earlier;
  • we were present at each of the major meetings that changed the migration reality in Poland;
  • and in the baobab, we hosted, among others, the Ambassador of the United States of America, Marek Brzeziński, Alden LeClair, Acting Regional Refugee Coordinator, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) of the US Department of State, Tomasz Szymański, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration, as well as the First Lady of Poland, Agata Kornhauser-Duda.

 

It has been a year of many new challenges for us, setting more goals for ourselves, but also enjoying the place we have created together and which fulfills its role giving us much satisfaction.

 

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