Checklist do Mikołaja z DPSu/Fb
A group of heartbreaking “letters to Santa” have revealed the easy presents lonely and forgotten about residents of care houses in Łόdz would most wish to obtain for Christmas.
Revealed on the Fb Web page “Checklist do Mikołaja z DPSu” (A Letter to Santa from a Social Welfare Residence), the letters have been obtained by the community of Social Welfare Properties in Łόdź who organised the initiative to assist these underneath their care.
The most typical gadgets discovered within the letters, which are sometimes embellished with footage surrounding the requests, embrace on a regular basis gadgets most individuals take without any consideration, comparable to bathe gel, deodorant, a sponge, face cream, crisps and tea and occasional.
The most typical gadgets discovered within the letters, which are sometimes embellished with footage surrounding the requests, embrace on a regular basis gadgets most individuals take without any consideration, comparable to bathe gel, deodorant, a sponge, face cream, crisps and tea and occasional.
In a single touching letter, 76-year-old pensioner Elżbieta writes “Christmas is coming and I can’t wait on your go to.
“This 12 months I would like to obtain from you a knitted prime in dimension XXXL, sweatpants in dimension XXXL/XXXXL and a floral deodorant.
“Thanks very a lot. I’m 76 years previous. ”
In a single touching letter, 76-year-old pensioner Elżbieta writes “Christmas is coming and I can’t wait on your go to. This 12 months I would like to obtain from you a knitted prime in dimension XXXL, sweatpants in dimension XXXL/XXXXL and a floral deodorant. Thanks very a lot. I’m 76 years previous.”
One other letter from a resident known as Adam says his biggest want is sugar and Ptasie Mleczko (a preferred Polish chocolate), whereas resident Ala hopes for a easy 70cm silver chain she has dreamed of her entire life.
The organisers of the annual “Letter to Santa” initiative estimate that they’ll obtain 1,800 letters this 12 months from these underneath the care of Social Welfare Properties in and round Łόdź.
Robert Pawlak, one of many organisers of the initiative, mentioned: “These individuals don’t have anybody aside from their carers and neighbours from their ground.
Robert Pawlak, one of many organisers of the initiative, mentioned: “These individuals don’t have anybody aside from their carers and neighbours from their ground.
Pawlak added: “They don’t have huge goals, however those who they reveal of their letters to Santa actually tug on the heartstrings…its sufficient to make anybody really feel fairly tearful.“They don’t have huge goals, however those who they reveal of their letters to Santa actually tug on the heartstrings…its sufficient to make anybody really feel fairly tearful.
“A grown particular person asking Santa for a pill of chocolate, bathe gel, crisps, gel candy or espresso.”
The individuals who come underneath the care of Social Welfare Properties, achieve this for a lot of causes. Piotr Gruchot, who’s 58-years previous, has been a resident for six years.
He beforehand labored as a provider and in a warehouse within the Elta and Femina vegetation in Łόdź, however fell on arduous occasions got here when he turned unwell with melancholy.
He has little shut household left after each his mom and father handed away, solely his brother, who visits him each two months.
In his letter to Santa, Piotr wrote: “I’d like to get adidas trainers. Blue ones, as a result of I like that color.
“A 12 months in the past I acquired a small radio, a one that may be charged like a cellular. I can hearken to music and sporting fixtures…I’ve nobody else left, and this Santa is such that we all the time await him.
“If I acquired these adidas trainers I’d be so comfortable.”
All letters obtained by the Łόdź Social Welfare Residence are revealed on a devoted webpage the place individuals can go and assist by selecting one of many letters and “changing into Santa” for that particular person.
In an identical scenario is 59-yer-old Sławomir Smulik, a resident of a Social Welfare Residence for the previous 15 years, who used to work in a candy manufacturing plant, however was pressured to take up incapacity advantages when he fell unwell.
He wrote: “I act within the theatre right here and I sing in a band. It makes me wish to dwell. At dwelling I by no means had a life like that…The individuals closest to me? They’re Piotruś, Wojtuś, Grzesio.
“My pals from the Social Welfare Residence. They’re right here with me. I’ve two older sisters. They dwell in England they usually have by no means been right here to go to me.”
The residents should not solely older individuals, but in addition youthful individuals who for varied causes, haven’t any shut relations or pals to name on, like 32-year-old Żaneta, whose largest ardour is amassing gentle toy cats and canine, prams and dolls and whose largest dream is for Santa to deliver her a pleasant doll.
As soon as a kind-hearted samaritan has purchased the gadgets from a letter, they put them in a parcel marked with the variety of the letter and go away it at one of many devoted assortment factors round Łόdź.
All letters obtained by the Łόdź Social Welfare Residence are revealed on a devoted webpage the place individuals can go and assist by selecting one of many letters and “changing into Santa” for that particular person.
As soon as a kind-hearted samaritan has purchased the gadgets from a letter, they put them in a parcel marked with the variety of the letter and go away it at one of many devoted assortment factors round Łόdź.
This 12 months’s initiative has much more assortment factors than final 12 months as extra individuals are keen to assist help the initiative. They are often discovered HERE.
Individuals also can assist by donating cash by way of the devoted assortment web page.
