Each year, Jóźwicki&Partners organizes festive Christmas workshops. Their primary goal has always been to foster employee integration within mixed teams. However, this year’s Christmas workshops were entirely different for J&P. On this particular day, each of us became a volunteer for a Senior and personally crafted a unique, festive gift. We had 150 beneficiaries from the Poznań-based Little Brothers of the Poor Association to present gifts to. The Association emphasizes help through heartfelt gestures – a philosophy we wholeheartedly share!
The ‘Little Brothers,’ whose idea originated in France, ‘attach the greatest importance to relationships built through accompanying seniors and skillfully listening to them – this is the essence of the Association’s motto, which reads: flowers before bread.’ The Association focuses on building bonds with elderly individuals and accompanying them in their daily lives. This is a rather unconventional form of volunteering. By being a member of the Little Brothers, you dedicate your time, share your emotions, and receive them from another person, because material aid is not everything; there are other equally important aspects essential to each of us. The generous founders care for the hearts of their beneficiaries, ensuring they feel they have someone nearby with whom they can share their thoughts. They ensure that afternoon coffee is a meeting with another person, not just another empty hour, and that beneficiaries feel there is someone out there who simply thinks of them, that they have not been left completely alone.
What could we give the Seniors?
We offered them some warm emotions by creating felt Christmas tree decorations, to which we attached sentiments straight from our hearts. Only this, and yet so much. The beneficiaries will know that the decoration was handmade and specifically for them, that we dedicated time and energy so that they would receive this unique gift in their Christmas package, along with a sentiment hidden in a festive envelope:
There are many things from which I have derived good, by which I have not profited. Christmas is one of them. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
Charles Dickens – “A Christmas Carol”
For more information about the Association, please visit their website: www.malibracia.org.pl
The results of our team’s Christmas work were very fruitful. Below are some photos from our Santa’s workshop!
