New children's charity in honour of murdered Polish missionary
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
24.01.2018 13:25
A scholarship fund for children in developing countries, set up in memory of Helena Kmieć, the Polish missionary killed in Bolivia last year, is to be launched on the first anniversary of her death on Wednesday.
Helena Kmieć. Photo: helenakmiec.pl
Kmieć was 25 years old when she volunteered to help at a childcare centre run by the Polish order of the Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mother of God.
Two weeks into her planned six-month mission she was stabbed during an attack at the centre. She died despite efforts to save her.
Her family, friends and supporters decided to set up a charity in her name.
“We want to give children [in Bolivia, Zambia and the Philippines] the means to go to school and support them by buying necessary goods and equipment,” said Marta Trawińska of the Helena Kmieć Foundation.
The charity aims to pay for the schooling of a girl from the childcare centre where Kmieć had volunteered before her death, to set up a school for 80 children on one of Zambia’s islands and to support children from the slums of Manila. (vb/pk)