The marathon of writing letters held by an organization called Amnesty
International was arranged 13 December 2014 in Katowice. Amnesty is a type of
organization which fights for human rights all over the world. Marathons are
actions consisting of gathering together and writing letters expressing
opposition to violation of human rights to heads of state who treat its
citizens badly. I’ve written letters defending a person from Norway who
changed sex and was sent for a
compulsory psychological treatment, a woman from China, who was arrested for
fighting against corruption and many other inequitably sentenced people.
During writing it many thoughts about important issues crossed my mind.
I was analyzing the reasons why governments of many countries simply ignore
human rights. I realized that there will never be fairness in our world if we
don’t change anything. The whole society has to start fighting for being
treated with justice. A simple action of writing letters may be helpful and
that’s why I’m going to take part in the marathon again.
WOŚP - Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy
“Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy” is a charity campaign I’ve
recognized since the stage of my early childhood. I’ve always wanted to take
part in it as a volunteer, but I wasn’t allowed to since only people over 16
were allowed to do it. Now, as I’m 16 I was finally permitted to become a
volunteer.
It was really easy to apply, because the school helped us to fill all
the documents and it was for sure simplier than doing it myself.
I decided to collect money in the Gallery of Katowice as I thought there
would be warm and I’d run into many people willing to give some money for
charity. In fact it didn’t work out at all, because there was so many
volunteers that I didn’t collect as much as I had expected. Nevertheless, it wasn’t money that was the
most important aspect of this action. The magical spirit of WOŚP’s endeavor was
the thing which really affected me. Nearly 80% of people in the gallery wore a
specific heart-sticker and they were behaving more kindly than usually.
Although all these well-known charity campaigns enable people to help
others and people tend to take part in them from time to time, it really brings
me down that they do it so rarely. I wish humans would someday become more
empathetic and helping one another would be recognized as our habit.
Christmas gifts
for children from orphanage
Just before Saint Nicholas’ Day some people from my school announced
that they organize a charity action consisting in collecting gifts for children
from an orphanage in Katowice among students. When I found out what was going
on, a good idea came to my mind. I decided to ask students from my class to
bring a small amount of money and I would buy sweets for children with it. How
shocked was I when it occurred that nearly everyone brought some money!
After I had collected funds, I decided to go to many shops so as to
catch the best bargains and buy as many gifts for children as possible. I
bought a tremendous figure of sweets and it gave me a feeling of satisfaction
that I had never experienced before. It was just pure happiness.
The campaign ended up as a success, because the whole school collected a
great amount of gifts. I had never expected to be rewarded for what I had done,
but someday after Saint Nicholas Day I received the best prize I could imagine.
These children for whom I had bought sweets gave me and my classmates hand-made
Christmas cards with acknowledgments for the presents. It really touched me and
I would like to organize such a campaign myself.
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