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Street + nr ul. Tyniecka 39	Telephone +48 12 2676766
Postal code 30-323	Mobile +48 607 06 84 68
Town Krakow	Fax +48 12 26 63 471
Country Poland	Website Salezjanskie Centrum WDM

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Employees: 

5

Volunteers: 

815

Young people: 

20000

Contact Person: 

Dariusz Bartocha

Member of the National Youth Council: 

no

Legal status: 

NGO

Geograph. focus: 

Poland + Europe

Publications: 

• Books
• supporting materials for youth workshops
• advertising books
• leaflets

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Mission: 

These are our main tasks: - to analyse current problems of young people and finding the possibilities of getting into their environment with the salesian ideas - to collect the best experiences and achievements in the field of youth service from all the members of salesian movement in order to share them during various meetings on country level - to work out and publish work plans and supporting materials: books, compilations, games, projects - to find, prepare and animate volunteers who would be able to realize these materials in concrete actions in their local organizations - to organize training courses, study visits, seminars for youth volunteers and teachers - to organize periodic meetings of youngsters, salesian animators and volunteers from all over the Poland.

Example activities: 

Volunteer trainings, meetings and workshops for animators from all over Poland, trainings for the teachers, youth pastoral work, courses for youth instructors, organising youth and volunteer meetings on national level, working out and publishing books, programmes, materials used for youth activities.

Background: 

One of the most important characteristics of Salesian movement in Poland is that it is very large. Poland is divided into 4 provinces of SDB and 2 provinces of FMA. There are about 190 Salesian centres which carry out youth work in the fields of oratories, schools, parishes, PGS etc. WDM (Salesian Centre of Education and Youth Ministry) was set up as an organization to coordinate all these youth ministry local activities and to create the country – broad level of communication. WDM was started in 1994 in Krakow. It is beautifully situated by the river Vistula in Krakow. The structure looks as follows:

- 6 delegates – one from each province - youth representatives – 2 from each province - workers of WDM residence in Krakow: Country Delegate (the head of WDM), a few Salesian priests, office worker (a volunteer) and a group of youth volunteers

Meetings of the members initiated mutual communication, the possibility of getting closer to each other, sharing the materials, knowledge, experiences and ideas. We learned to make common views, plans and activities. The attention of WDM focuses basically on the youth ministry in oratories, schools, parishes, centres for the “difficult” young people etc.

History

Member for

30 weeks 5 days