There is work to be done! The front line is once again coming dangerously close to the facility we support. 10 years ago we saved the hospital in Ntamugenga in the Democratic Republic of Congo and we cannot leave it now. We are asking you for a tiny amount! The 5, 10 PLN you have in your wallet can save our Congolese facility.

None of us would want to be there right now. It is a place where the deafening explosion of a falling bomb brings relief to the inhabitants. It follows seconds after the wheezing sound of it being fired from the missile launcher. Hearing the falling missile lets you know that this time you made it, that you are alive. That it didn’t fall on your head, didn’t tear apart your home or the lives of the children cuddled up to you. None of us would want to endure this loneliness and abandonment. They are felt by the Congolese, who don’t know where to run or why they have to do it again. The eyes of the world are looking the other way. To Ukraine, to Israel.

For 10 years, the hospital in Ntamugenga has been more than a medical facility for them. It is a place where they feel safe. Where the Polish sisters are, where you have been all these years.

These people do not know you. They only know that no one will refuse to help them with a complicated birth, that no one will helplessly spread their arms when they turn up holding a starving child in their arms. They know that there is no shortage of malaria remedies, and that when these no longer work, someone will rush to their rescue, put them to bed, transfuse their blood, save them.

Yes, these people do not know your faces, but they know you are there. Because thanks to you, we can still save their lives.

By the end of this month, we are 63,000 PLN short on supplies of medicines, therapeutic milk, needles, syringes and reagents for basic laboratory tests. This is a lot. But there are a lot of us here, too. And today I am asking you for this little bit, as much as you can, so that we don’t have to give up anything.

Without you, the Good Factory will not be able to continue. We have no cash reserves, no grants and no funding for the hospital in Ntamugenga. This is not because we are not doing anything about it. Our team for funding for Congo has been trying hard. This year our ideas, although rated highly, did not result in financial support. We trust that you will not be indifferent to our patients, who differ from us only in that they were born in a different, cruel part of the world.