The Foundation for Education-Development-Environment was established in Bolechowice, in Zabierzow Commune, Poland, in 2004. The objectives of the Foundation include:

• Education - education for children and youth. Primarily free educational and sports activities for students as well as cultural projects. In this field we issued a number of publications: pamphlets, books, calendars and more recently an educational board game. Until now, most of the activities were directed to the primary school students in Bolechowice but we also cooperate with the junior high schools in Zabierzów and Rudawa. We collaborated with the School Compound in Zielonka as well. The list of successful projects in this area is long, we invite you to browse through our projects.



• Development - civil society development. Whenever possible, we try to cooperate with local authorities, local villages and the Commune Office (our representative participated in the evaluation of the Zabierzów Municipal Development Strategy). We also try to act more broadly, we completed the project supporting the local governments of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, co-funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We are also engaged in international cooperation, we invited school students from the U.S. and organized an exhibition of our students’ works in Camas (U.S.).



• Environment - environmental protection. Whenever possible, we inform the local authorities on these issues, particularly the problem of garbage and grass burning in the protected areas (Natura 2000). We also organized and funded the functioning of ecological club in Bolechowice.