Fundacja Avalon is the one of the largest Polish public benefit organizations supporting people with chronic illness and people with disabilities, to provide them with opportunities to be active in every area of life. We help with fundraising, offer education and rehabilitation therapy, and promote sport activities.

Today we are responding to the urgent need to help our Ukrainian neighbors, who have been forced to flee their homeland to escape violence, losing their housing and loved ones… During the process of evacuation they often had to leave their wheelchairs, orthopedic equipment, medicaments and other urgently needed items, without which they cannot function, move freely, and provide for themselves.

That is why we decided to launch the program of support and help to people from and remaining in Ukraine, who are affected by a disability or an illness. We decide it to call our initiative the Center of Help for Refugees with Disabilities

Our goals are to:

– collect orthopedic equipment and personal hygiene products for reception points and institutions that provide support to refugees with disabilities. We stay in contact with organizations and institutions in Ukraine, and we will also transport the acquired equipment.

– provide access to active physiotherapy at the headquarters of our foundation in Warsaw, focused on people with motor disabilities. It will be supported by Ukrainian speaking volunteers who will translate and explain every activity and exercise.

– offer on-site assistance and support to evacuate people with disabilities from the war area

Did you know that over 1.5 million people fleeing the war from Ukraine have already arrived in Poland? Many of them suffer from chronic illnesses and have disabilities. Most of those people, running away from war and violence in a hurry, were not able to carry their most necessary equipment, medical supplies, medicines, and other items that would enable them to stay safe, in good health, and function normally. Unfortunately, in places such as reception points or shelters, the most critical equipment is missing, and the situation is truly dramatic. We continuously receive heartbreaking requests for support and help. We cannot remain inert, we need to act right here and right now!

We kindly ask for financial support but would also be very grateful if you were are able to deliver some of following items. Please contact us at: [email protected]

Orthopedic equipment, e.g. elbow crutches, walking crutches

Orthopedic wheelchairs

Hygienic liners

Pampers for adults / adult diapers

Diaper pants

Large wet wipes

Washing foam (without water)

Sudocrem Antiseptic Healing Cream

Dressings / plasters with silver for bedsores and complex wounds

Octanisept antiseptic lotion

Ready-made catheter kits

Ostomy bags + healing and sealing paste

Gloves

Blankets / thermal films

Bandages

Saline

Drinking water treatment tablets

Thermometers, painkillers, antipyretics

Our involvement does not mean that we stop our daily, statutory activities for people with chronic illnesses and people with disabilities in Poland. We continue to carry out our key tasks, and support our beneficiaries with the same energy and intensity as we did before the war in Ukraine. The Help Center for Refugees with Disabilities is an additional task that the Foundation undertakes in response to a sudden and urgent need, joining the nationwide effort of Poles to help the victims of the war.

Thank you for your huge hearts !!! 💙💛