While our Zgorzelec children will be enjoying surprises and gifts as they await Sunday’s city celebrations of Children’s Day at Fort Bolka i Lolka, in the Syrian city of Aleppo—the contemporary symbol of wartime trauma—its youngest residents, instead of carefree play in the park, will face another dose of war experiences that are entirely unsuitable for children.
Can we help them?
The organizers of Saturday’s events supporting the work of Polish Humanitarian Action, which will precede the city’s Children’s Day celebrations, believe that we can. They warmly invite everyone to the Municipal Cultural Centre, where works created in the “Pod kopułą” art studio will be on display from noon. (Agata Szmigiel invites you at 3:30 p.m. and around 5:00 p.m.).
That is not all, however, as Saturday’s events will also include a presentation, prepared by the Municipal Public Library, of the remarkable book “My Wonderful Childhood in Aleppo” Grzegorz Gortat, published by Bajka Publishing House, which is donating all proceeds from its sale to support PAH’s work.
Then, at 4:00 p.m., the originator and initiator of the “Zgorzelec for Aleppo” campaign, Dorota Tyniec, and the Municipal Cultural Centre invite everyone to a meeting with PAH head Janina Ochojska. Saturday’s events supporting PAH’s work will culminate in a charity concert by the Zgorzelec Mandolin Orchestra named after Tadeusz Grudziński—“Zgorzelec for Aleppo”—which will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the MDK auditorium.
The Mayor of Zgorzelec has assumed patronage of the event. Students of the Zgorzelec Cross-Border University of the Third Age have also announced their participation in the campaign. All funds collected during Saturday’s campaign will be transferred to the account of Polish Humanitarian Action.
