The Polish Community in Madrid is organising a Polish Solidarity Carnival to support fundraising for the purchase of diagnostic, monitoring and rehabilitation equipment for lung diseases in Poland.
The charity events will start tomorrow, Saturday at 11am, with a charity run in Madrid’s Retiro Park organised by Things Happen. The main event will take place next Sunday at the Centro Cultural Galileo (c/ Fernando el Católico, 35, entrance on Calle Galileo), thanks to the collaboration of the Chamberí District.
The artistic programme, which will last from 12 noon to 6 p.m., will include the participation of several Polish associations and schools in the Community of Madrid, folklore groups and Polish artists living in Spain. There will be music and dance, workshops for children, typical Polish dishes, street markets and lotteries, all to contribute, from Spain, to this great action of Polish solidarity that helps to save lives.
Throughout the day there will also be charity auctions. On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the political transformation in Poland, the Polish Embassy in Madrid has donated a poster “Solidarność” (“Solidarity”) from the first free elections held in 1989, which will be auctioned at 4 pm.
In addition, on the same day, there will be several events and collections organised by the volunteers of the WOSP representation in the Community of Madrid and other cities in Spain, such as Alicante, Granada, Murcia, Santiago de Compostela, Segovia, Seville and Valencia, as well as in Tenerife.
The Great Christmas Solidarity Orchestra (WOSP) has been held every last Sunday in January in Poland and abroad for 32 years. The aim is to raise funds to purchase specialised medical equipment for Polish hospitals and to promote preventive health care. The Great Christmas Solidarity Orchestra Foundation, which is responsible for this event, is one of the most trusted charitable organisations among the Polish population.
In the course of its activity, the Foundation raised and donated approximately 430 million euros to purchase more than 74 thousand medical devices. The Foundation’s greatest achievements include the creation of 325 neonatal departments with 554 Infant Flow devices, 21 retinopathy treatment centres, the purchase of 2,978 personal insulin pumps for the youngest children or the creation of 4 national health programmes. In 2022, the Foundation allocated more than €5.5 million to support Ukraine.
