Impact Report 2018 StreetwiZe • Mobile School

Follow-up POLAND • Fundacja Ukryte Skrzydla
23/03/2018 • 25/03/2018
Robert Cieślar
Fundacja Ukryte Skrzydla
Krakau / Poland
The mobile school project in Krakow, Poland
was started up in 2008. The project has had
its ups and downs over the course of the
years, but due to recent positive changes, the
impact of their local mobile school project and
its susainability have increased considerably.
In 2016, a project application submitted by
Fundacja Ukryte Skrzydla was approved by the
City of Krakau, giving them resources for three
years to organise five street sessions per week
with paid street educators. The team works in 5
different sectors. In Krakau, low-income families
(Polish and Roma families) are housed in
apartment blocks built in the communist era,
which are referred to as “social ghettos”. Many
families struggle with drug and alcohol abuse
and unwanted pregnancies. The mobile school
team works with the children living in these
“ghettos”.
Before the mobile school interventions, many
children were aggressive - due to the lack of a
positive outlet - and lacked social skills. During
the outreach sessions, the team encourages
the children, builds up their confidence and
teaches them to play together and follow the
rules. The street educators have noticed a lot of
positive improvements in the behaviour of the
children over the years.
With the mobile school, the team also tries to
bridge the gap between the children’s neighbourhoods
and the school. Although the children
have the possibility to go to school, they often
skip classes. Due to their low self-esteem, they
don’t have a sense of belonging. Consequently,
they act out a lot and are often expelled. Again,
the team has noticed improvements thanks to
their outreach work.
The team requested a Mobile School training,
because 12 new volunteers were joining them.
Usually, new volunteers are trained by the team
itself, but since they received funds to finance
the training, they applied for a Mobile School
training instead. During the three-day follow-up,
the new volunteers participated in the general
presentation of the Mobile School vision and
methodology and learned how to drive and
maintain the mobile school during the technical
workshop. In addition, they actively played and
invented games with the educational materials
and followed the workshop on self-esteem. All
new volunteers were extremely motivated to
start working with the mobile school.
IMPACT
12 volunteers trained
Knowledge of Mobile School educational materials
Knowledge of self-esteem model
Increased motivation to work with the mobile school
Increased future impact of local project
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