Wstecz Cultural Self-Help Centre

Today, more and more people are facing loneliness and social exclusion, sometimes seeking the support of others to implement their ideas. The innovation responds to the needs of an increasingly individualised and polarised society, which - in the face of a series of crises falling upon it - lacks places to experience them together and share their experiences with others.

The Cultural Self-Help Centre is a model of cooperation between cultural institutions and grassroots self-help groups. A self-help group makes it possible, above all, to minimise loneliness in the face of problems, to support each other, but also to take matters into one's own hands and not just be dependent on external help. Above all, this model of action ensures the preservation of subjectivity without excluding professional help.

• People with health problems;

• Ethnic and religious minorities;

• Groups facing social problems;

• groups at risk of discrimination on grounds of age, gender or sexual orientation;

• self-help groups active in the local community.

A Cultural Self-Help Centre can operate at cultural institutions, including e.g. community centres, libraries, community activity or neighbourhood centres, self-help groups already in operation.

• Those interested in becoming members of the group.

• Meeting space.

E-mail: otwarty@jazdow.pl;

Website: www.jazdow.pl;

Correspondence address: Jazdów 10/5, 00-467 Warsaw.