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]
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.