Computers and furniture for the Środa Wielkopolska Socio-Socio-Therapeutic Centre.
We are committed to giving ill or challenged children equal opportunities for education, not only on Children’s Day (1 June). In July we bought nearly 30 computers and 50 computer screens as well as furniture for the Środa Wielkopolska Socio-Therapeutic Centre.

Here is a fragment of a letter from Jacek Bartkowiak, the Centre’s director: The equipment we received from Decora will help us improve our offer for children and teenagers in our branches in Jarosławiec, Pławce, Koszuty, Nadziejewo, Bieganowo, Szlachcin and Środa Wielkopolska. I want to thank you very much for all your support, especially that it has not been the first occasion that Decora has helped us.

More on the Socio-Therapeutic Centre:
The Środa Wielkopolska Socio-Therapeutic Centre is an independent body of the Środa Wielkopolska Commune set up in 2002 to operate in pursuance of:

1. 1982 Sobriety Promotion and Anti-Alcoholism Act (Journal of Laws No. 53, item 230 as amended),
2. 2004 Social Welfare Act (Journal of Laws No. 64, item 593 as amended),
3. 2005 Public Finance Act (Jorunal of Laws No. 249, item 2104 as amended),
4. other laws and regulations,
5. the Centre’s Articles of Association.

The Środa Wielkopolska Socio-Therapeutic Centre is a day support institution. Its works towards the aimes specified in the Commune Alcohol Problem Prevention and Solution Schemes and the Commune Anti-Drug Schemes in cooperation with the Commune Committee for Alcohol Problems. The Centre offers classes and activities for children and teenagers in its local branches in Jarosławiec, Pławce, Koszuty, Nadziejewo, Bieganowo, Szlachcin and Środa Wielkopolska. Every day the Centre attracts some 250 participants aged 7-18, students of Primary Schools 2, 3 and 4 in Środa Wielkopolska and the town’s three Junior Secondary Schools (Gimnajza) as well as Primary Schools in Pławce, Jarosławiec, Słupia Wielka and Tadeuszewo. The participants mostly come from disfuntional, spit or single-parent familites with alcohol, unemployment, poverty and abuse-related problems.
Our aims:

1. Supporting familites, in particular those where alcohol addiction hinders their basic care and upbringing functions.
2. Working with children and teenagers vulnerable to addiction, in particular to alcohol, and affected by domestic violence.
3. Cooperating with the Commune Committee for Alcohol Problems, Social Welfare Centre, schools, Regional Court, District Family Assistance Centre and other institutions working for the benefit of children and families.

Our activities:

• support in school, family, peer and personal problems,
• socio-therapeutic activities,
• learing activities,
• welfare assistance and meals,
• free-time management and hobby development, including music and art activities, sports and games,
• ongoing work with families.