On Sunday, December 11, 2022, the next edition of the Ciacho za Ciacho campaign will take place under the slogan “Many for the Small”. This time, students from the Beczka chaplaincy decided to support Krakow Hospice of Fr. Józef Tischner, and we want to join this work by donating our products to the auction and fair.
Ciacho za Ciacho is an all-day charity event organized by the Dominican Academic Chaplaincy Beczka, operating in Krakow, since 2003. Most often it takes place cyclically, twice a year: before Easter and Christmas. Ciacho is primarily a cake and book fair, but also numerous accompanying events, e.g. auction, concert, theater performance, workshops, discussion panel and attractions for children. In addition, since the last edition, it has been accompanied by an online fundraiser, which gives the campaign a nationwide character – it can be supported from anywhere in our country.
The total income from the campaign is always allocated to support organizations that provide broadly understood help to those in need – this time it will be the Krakow Hospice of them. Fr. Józef Tischner. It is a home hospice whose charges are the youngest patients struggling with incurable diseases. This work ensures that every sick person is cared for in their own home, providing the necessary equipment and apparatus in a familiar, comfortable and safe environment. This is conducive to a better mental well-being of children, for whom hospitals are foreign, unfamiliar places, and thus often unfriendly.
The hospice provides perinatal care from conception, helps with a sudden illness of a child, and supports families suffering after the child’s passing. Both the charges and their relatives also receive psychological help. It was no accident that Father Józef Tischner was chosen as the patron of the hospice; it was he who, by the example of his life, showed that love is building a world full of goodness, which is most fully expressed in providing selfless help, especially to the most suffering and defenseless.
In recent years, the collected funds have been used, among others, for: at the Center of St. Marcin de Porres in Fastów in Ukraine, sociotherapeutic center in Nowa Huta, the “Leonardo” Foundation helping in Africa, the activities of the Dominicans in Cameroon, the Community Self-Help Center in Rzepiennik Biskupi, the PoMOC for Women and Children Association. Mary Immaculate or the reconstruction of a school in Iraq destroyed during the war. On the day of the finale of the action, about 15,000 people usually appear in the Dominican cloisters.
info on/Beczka, photo: Paulina Krzyżak
