Grants for organizations carrying out activities for refugees and migrants
We offer support to community-based organizations providing assistance to refugees on the Polish-Belarusian border and providing support to persons residing in centers for foreigners in Poland.
Grants (depending on the needs and action plan presented in the application) are available to organizations invited to apply, which:
The grant can cover:
Grant funds can be spent from the signing of the agreement until December 31, 2024.
Building the civil society agenda in the area of migration and integration policy
In addition, we provide support to organizations involved in building the civil society agenda in the area of migration and integration policy, including the preparation of assumptions and proposals for legal solutions, networking of organizations carrying out activities for refugees and migrants, building a system of mutual learning and support, advocacy activities with local and central authorities, foreign donors and international agencies.
We provide grants in the amount depending on the needs and action plans only to invited by name civil society organisations that cooperate with other organizations.
Catholic Intelligentsia Club, Warsaw
Running a Crisis Intervention Point providing humanitarian assistance to refugees on the Polish-Belarusian border: funding for coordination, psychological support, volunteer meals, and administrative costs. 100,000 PLN
Bezkres Foundation, Gródek
Organizing and providing humanitarian aid and first medical aid in Podlasie: coordinator’s salary, administrative costs, maintenance and repair of vehicles. PLN 50,000
Bezkres Foundation, Gródek
Respite support for caregivers and preparation of a multimedia exhibition on the fates of refugees. 50,000 PLN
Catholic Intelligentsia Club, Warsaw
Running of the Crisis Intervention Point in Podlasie, salary for coordinators, covering food costs for volunteers, administrative costs, electricity, gas, waste disposal, warehouse rental. PLN 50,000
Egala Association, Bialystok
Psychological support for migrants and refugees and humanitarian aid workers, meeting of organizations and informal groups involved in humanitarian aid at the border. PLN 44,000
Mova Association – language without barriers, Warsaw
Organizing and providing translation services (Arabic, Sorani and Persian) for refugees and migrants on the Polish-Belarusian border, in medical facilities and in centers for foreigners: translation and coordination costs. PLN 47,000
Rule of Law Institute Foundation, Lublin
Preparing positions on the detention of foreigners and conducting refugee cases in Poland for migration authorities of EU countries and/or lawyers representing foreigners in asylum proceedings. 44,000 PLN
The Association for Legal Intervention, Warsaw
Activities of the PomocSoc Team: ongoing support for groups and activists assisting people in guarded centers for foreigners (i.a. costs of parcel deliveries, travel, costs of purchasing material aid for people in SOC), trainings and follow-up podcasts aimed at aid workers. PLN 40,000
Białystok and Supraśl Group
Subsidising the purchase of food, winter clothes, thermos flasks, torches, heaters for activists and refugees in the forest. PLN 4,000
Egala Association, Bialystok
“Social Archive of the Humanitarian Crisis” – building public awareness and sensitivity to the situation related to the humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border: conducting and disseminating research, organizing monthly seminars, producing webinars and podcasts, website, promotional activities. PLN 29,750
Egala Association, Bialystok
Activities supporting people on the move, migrants and refugees in the Polish-Belarusian border region, both in intervention and humanitarian aid in the forest as well as in hospitals and guarded centres. PLN 50,000
Group under Walizka Foundation, Sanok
Support activities for refugees at the Polish-Belarusian border and in Guarded Centres for Foreigners. Costs of travel to Podlasie and legal, psychological and material support for detainees in Wędrzyn and Przemyśl. PLN 4,000
Halina Nieć Legal Aid Center, Kraków
Legal aid for asylum-seekers in open centers, persons in the return procedure in guarded centers, and foreigners applying for international protection in Poland as part of the Safe Home project. PLN 38,400
Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights on behalf of the Border Group, Warsaw
Providing legal support to foreigners crossing the Belarusian-Polish border through volunteers working in the border area – duty lawyers at the Monitoring Centre. PLN 30,000
Manufaktura Inicjatyw Różnorodnych Association, Wypuszczone collective, Ochodze
Psychological and therapeutic support for people helping those in need on the Polish-Belarusian border. PLN 50,000
Mova Association – language without barriers, Warsaw
Translation for refugees in need (face-to-face and remote), translation assistance in centres for foreigners and hospitals. PLN 36,000
Nature and Culture House Association, Teremiski
Running a permanent place for volunteers and local activists from Białowieża, Hajnówka and the Białowieża Forest region, as well as a warehouse with donations for refugees, heating the building, covering the costs of supplies, transport and coordination. PLN 49,000
No Border Group, Czeremcha, Nurzec Stacja
Costs of repairing the car and minor repairs at the site of activist meetings, purchase of thermal imaging equipment for rescuing people in the forest. PLN 4000
Our Imaginarium Association, Żyrardów
Organisation of the Borderland Crisis Forum: support and counselling for local governments from the state of emergency zone, information activities for residents of municipalities in Podlasie. PLN 5,500
Polish Hospitality Foundation, Warsaw
Running a Crisis Intervention Point in Podlasie, purchase of fuel, tickets, food, personal protective equipment for activists, workshops for volunteers and Polish language course for refugees in the Guarded Center for Foreigners in Białystok. PLN 50,000
Siemiatycze Group, Siemiatycze
Running a warehouse with in-kind donations for refugees, retrofitting costs. PLN 4,000
„Tere Warehouse” Group, Teremiski
Running a warehouse with in-kind donations for refugees, retrofitting costs. PLN 4,000
Catholic Intelligentsia Club, Warsaw
Purchase of equipment for people providing aid to migrants and bookkeeping for the Crisis Intervention Centre on the Polish-Belarusian border. PLN 5,200
Free Word Zone Foundation, Warsaw
Co-ordination of volunteers in-kind help for refugees in the vicinity of Augustów and Sejny, counselling support for people involved in the project: residents, activists. PLN 30,000
Group from Narewka
Costs of transport of activists, purchase of thermal imaging equipment to rescue migrants in the forest. PLN 4,000
Group from Suprasl
Cost of transport and thermal clothing for activists, purchase of medicine and food rations for migrants in the forest. PLN 4,000
Halina Nieć Legal Aid Centre, Krakow
Co-ordination of the Centre’s work and support for volunteers in County Hajnówka, on-duty lawyer. PLN 30,000
Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Warsaw
Legal aid, psychological assistance and translation services for foreigners in guarded centres and those who attempt to apply for international protection in Poland immediately upon crossing the Belarusian-Polish border. PLN 30,000
Homo Faber Association, Lublin
Psychological assistance and crisis intervention, training, co-ordination of volunteers, collections of essentials, field and technical teams at the border, crisis communication management during intense interventions. PLN 30,000
Lower Silesian Women’s Congress Association, Wroclaw
Purchase and transport of aid packages to the border, storage of collected gifts, arranging accommodation for activists. PLN 30,000
No Borders, Group, Warsaw
Meetings with a psychotraumatologist for activists and others on the border. PLN 4,000
Nomada Association for the Integration of Multicultural Society, Wroclaw
Co-ordination of activities to support refugee families, legal support for attorneys working at the border, monitoring and documenting developments at the border, legal support for asylum seekers, purchase of clothing and equipment, team transportation and supervision costs. PLN 30,000
Polish Migration Forum Foundation, Izabelin
Counselling support for people in Guarded Centres for Foreigners, translation, monitoring, advocacy and networking activities, purchase of equipment, counselling support for the team. PLN 30,000
RegenerAction Foundation, Szczawnica
Psychological and intervention support for activists at the border: permanent on-line service, on-site services, stress relief treatment, supervision. PLN 30,000
Rights Equator Foundation Group, Wroclaw
The cost of transporting people participating in the ‘Mothers to the Border. Forest Is No Place for Children”. PLN 4,000
Salvation Foundation, Warsaw
Purchase of warm clothing (jackets, thermoactive clothing and boots) for the Foundation volunteers and staff assisting migrants on the Polish-Belarusian border. PLN 30,000
Ucieleśnienie [Embodiment] Collective, Hajnówka
Counselling support for individuals who actively help migrants on the Polish-Belarusian border. PLN 4,000
