PCPM News

“If it weren’t for PCPM, we wouldn’t even have attempted the rescue operation,” say firefighters from the Ethiopian city of Awassa. Local responders receive equipment and training from Poland through...

“This year, the needs are so great that we used up our therapeutic food supplies, which were supposed to last for the whole year, already in June,” says Aleksandra Mizerska,...

Effective development aid does not end with the delivery of equipment. In Ethiopia, PCPM is developing an initiative in which Polish specialists support local services in the regular maintenance and...

On 1 December, a group of firefighters in Kiambu were preparing for another training session, this time in the classroom after several weeks of intensive field drills. Their plans changed...

In southern Ethiopia, cows are much more than just a source of food and income. They symbolize social status, play a role in ceremonies, and sometimes spark conflicts between tribes....

“The Kenyan fire service was recently where Poland was in the 1970s,” says Tomasz Traciłowski, a Polish instructor who has just returned from Kenya. Until not long ago, firefighters in...