Fundacja "Zielony Słoń"

Green Elephant Foundation is a non-governmental organization established with an aim of providing lifelong learning to the youths and adults. We focus in particular on educational activities aimed to face social problems like violence, discrimination, racism, hate speech, problem of inadequate level of education, or problems the Youths encounter while starting their adventure on the labor market. We support young people and adults in vocational education, work placements abroad, send them to youth exchanges or training courses. We dream, create and craft educational experiences. We are active in area of non-formal education by providing educational events for youths, international exchanges or training courses for trainers and youth workers as well as in area of vocational education by providing workplacements for Polish students in foreign countries. Owing to the fact that nowadays people live in a fast-pacing, requiring changes environment, we extended our interests in terms of active lifestyle. It can be wider understood as “Sport” and “Healthy Lifestyle”. The primary mission that we took up is to fight against the obesity (very common phenomenon worldwide, in Poland). According to the “Wprost” Newspaper (10.04.2019), right now the obesity rate in Poland is 25,2% (30% male, 26% female). This rate is going up every day. These statistics are tremendous - that’s why Green Elephant Foundation strives to take up certain measures to overcome them. One of the activity speaking for this action is “Sport the YOUth”. This youth exchange has been accepted and is going to be implemented in the nearest future. The activity has been initiated together with the Serbian organization “KOSARKASKI SAVEZ GRADA NISA”. Green Elephant Foundation has significantly contributed to proclaiming the concept of the healthy lifestyle, proposing activities to the Youths - how can they be more active in the everyday life as well as implementing good practices during projects (providing food rich in nutritional values, conducting activities outside on the fresh air), and many more. In the same time we are a cultural organization which is proud of supporting literacy and reading. We have a number of old books under our care including unique printouts which dates back to XIX and XVIII century. We promote the culture of reading and preserving the books. We also promote other traditional activities like local handcrafts - often organize workshops with people who make homemade foodstuffs. https://www.facebook.com/FundacjaZielonySlon www.greenelephant-foundation.com