Goal, Membership and Activity of the Foundation

The idea for the foundation developed as a result of the political transformation occurring in the territory of the former Soviet Union. The statutory goal of the foundation is defined by a moral imperative as well as the strong bond among Poles.

The goal of the foundation is to organize various forms of humanitarian, cultural and material aid to Polish families and individuals forcibly settled in the territory of the former Soviet Union, as well as social, cultural, religious and educational organizations.

The funding of the foundation is comprised of:
a) Establishment fund
b) Contributions-Donations
c) Public collection
d) Gifts and bequests

The foundation does not employ any full-time employees. All positions in the foundations are honorary.

Development of the Foundation

Today the activity of the foundation is joined by dozens of private individuals as well as independent social organizations cooperating to provide aid to Polish children and their families as well as Polish organizations, associations and Catholic parishes in the East. Thanks to the friendship and generosity of benefactors in Poland and abroad, as well as the warm-hearted support of the Presidium of the Polish Senate, the foundation is able to organize each year a convoy of humanitarian, cultural and material aid from the Vilnius region of Lithuania through Yekaterinburg in the Urals to Kazakhstan and the farthest reaches of Siberian Russia all the way to Georgia.


Our Activity Connected with the Return of Poles to Their Homeland

Every year there is an increasing number of permanent volunteers in Poland and among Polonia, who help to increase the foundation’s field of activity in those areas where large number of Poles are concentrated in the East. A particularly important event for the foundation is the recently passed legislation by the Polish parliament increasing the possibility of return to Poland for those Poles living in the former Soviet Union. As a result, the foundation has concentrated to a greater extent the activity aimed at enabling the return of Polish families from Kazakhstan and Central Asia.

It is evident that the ability to obtain a passport from the individual household budget is practically impossible for 80% of those Polish families living on the steppes of southern Kazakhstan. The only way of fulfilling their dreams of returning to their homeland is through our help. We are their only hope—Poles resident inside Poland and those living in emigration since 1945.

For many persons without family in Poland or the country of their residence, there is a problem with how to bequeath their property. It would be a moving and lasting patriotic gesture to bequeath their material legacy to aid Poles in their efforts to return to their homeland. The foundation “POMOST—Aid to Poles in the East” is an institution that guaranteeing the disposition of those funds bequeathed for humanitarian aid to Poles in the East as well as the cost associated with the return ( paying for passport and transport) to Poland of those Polish families from Kazakhstan and Central Asia.

In addition, contributors of larger gifts will be able to create a fund for stipends in their name through the framework of the “POMOST—Aid to Poles in the East” foundation. The payment will be used as capital from which the interest will be assigned to a yearly stipend in the contributors name for Polish students from the east to attend educational institutions in Poland.