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The PCPM Foundation has delivered a new vehicle needed for the mobile clinic. ‘For driving to patients in distant areas, we had to rent a vehicle. The car given by the PCPM will allow us to save a lot of money’ – said doctor Jamil Al-Hamad, the mobile clinic’s staff member. Thanks to the support from the Foundation and the ‘Polish Aid’ development program several thousand people will receive access to i.e. USG examination.
Paramedic and firefighting training and life-saving equipment that helps the casualties of accidents – the PCPM Foundation helps from the funds of the Polish Aid project.
The authorities of the capital of Lebanon emphasize the high effectiveness of the help that PCPM brings to the city through the "Cash for Work" program, i.e. commissioning minor infrastructural and cleaning works to the local community. The beneficiaries of the program are also the poorest inhabitants of Beirut – both Lebanese and Syrians – for whom work provided by the PCPM is often the only source of income.
The Polish Secretary of State Małgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak visited our Firefighting and Emergency Service Training Center in the Kenyan capital. We presented the project outline, the actions implemented in close cooperation with Polish Aid, and the up-to-date needs of the Fire and Emergency Service Department in Kenya.
Thanks to Polish Aid funding, PCPM is piloting a cost-effective fire station design. On 22 July, the Polish Ambassador accompanied by PCPM CEO inaugurated a new fire station in Makindu, Makueni County.
In case you have missed a story on K24Tv, here it is. New firefighters being trained at Fire And Rescue Training Centre, Kenya - Firetrack. We at PCPM feel proud! Thanks to Polish Aid!
Heads of Fire Brigades from 2/3 of local governments of Kenya gathered this Friday and Saturday for the second conference of Chief Fire Officers Association, Kenya, supported by Polish Center for International Aid. This was a great opportunity to meet and confer with Fire Chiefs from all over Kenya, from Marsabit in the North to Narok in the South and from Kilifi on the Coast of the Indian Ocean to Bungoma on the Ugandan border.
We are starting the next stages of aid in Lebanon, Palestine, Ethiopia and Kenya. As part of the MFA (Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs) competition "Polish Development Aid 2021", the PCPM Foundation will receive grants for the implementation of new development projects in these countries.