Foundation for Children “Help on Time”

Attention!

Recently a group of cheaters have appeared in the streets of towns and cities all over Great Britain offering for sale postcards and data of our foundation.
The Foundation for children "Help on Time" would like to declare that we have nothing to do with this campaign and we do not sell anything in the streets.
If you personally meet with such a practice,please inform the police immediately.

About the Foundation.

Foundation for children ‘Help on Time’, established in 1998, is carrying out a nationwide programme ‘Help on Time’ under the patronage of Zbigniew Religa. The foundation provides care for over 3000 ill and disabled children throughout the whole of Poland. It also runs affiliated outposts – hospices, medical and childcare centres. The Foundation’s activities are mostly concerned with raising funds for complicated operations, expensive treatment, long-term rehabilitation (Forms of help for children). As part of the Foundation, The Centre for Help and Rehabilitation has been established to meet the needs of those in care.

The Foundation’s activities are supported by numerous sponsors and donors – it is their help that gives disabled and suffering children a chance to have a happy future and improve their health and fitness. Regardless of the wonderful gestures of the sponsors and donors, the Foundation is striving to raise funds on its own by running a publishing house. This venture alone covers the entire cost of managing the Foundation – handling subaccounts of over 3 thousand of pupils in care, maintenance of the rehabilitation room, and various administrative expenses. For this reason, payments of sponsors and donors are not charged any extra fees and commissions by the Foundation.

Genesis

Sometimes it may happen that a tragedy makes us drift away from God, the world and people. It may also happen, as in the case of the creator of this Foundation, that a personal tragedy opens our eyes to other people’s tragedies.

Business was going well, a luxurious, fully equipped villa was waiting for the owners to move in. It was supposed to happen within the following four weeks, at Easter time. They were happy, fortune was smiling at them. And yet…something different happened.

The owner’s wife and a twenty-year-old driver died in a car accident. The pain of those who were left alone was immeasurable. How can one carry on living after such a tragedy? What is the way to cope with this… it was like an open wound.

Material goods, money – what does it matter when you compare it with inconsolable pain and loneliness. What is the way to cope with suffering? Another day followed by another night, and life demanded some new meaning. The most difficult thing was to accept the suffering of an orphaned child. But there are children also suffering for the same or for other reasons somewhere. This reflection led to the idea of launching a foundation for children - hurt by people or disabled.

This is how the Foundation came into existence. It began its activity in 1998.

The owner and his family did not move into the new villa. The building has become the office of the Foundation. The owner of the villa decided that the purpose the building was to serve had been marked by a strange coincidence. Making others, not oneself, happy was more important – it is well reflected in the words of the Polish writer Julian Tuwim: ‘make others happy and find your own happiness in the happiness of others’.

The ‘Help on Time’ Programme

The Foundation is under the supervision of prof. Zbigniew Religa, Minister of Health, who has been the patron of the ‘Help on Time’ programme since 1998.

The programme is nationwide, open for all natural and legal persons supporting the idea of helping children in need.

The central idea of the ‘Help on time’ programme is to rescue the lives of endangered children, bring them back to health, support their education, and help to improve their difficult economic situation.