Poczta Polska extends cooperation with the Special Educational Center in Skawina
Poczta Polska has been supporting people with disabilities for years. This finds an expression, among others policy of employing a company. Poczta Polska also organizes assisted practices that help young people with disabilities to enter the labor market and gain independence. Now the "Pocztowy Dar" Foundation joins the group of entities cooperating with the center in Skawina.
The Special School and Education Center in Skawina is named after Poczta Polska and is intended, among others for pupils and students with intellectual disabilities in a light, moderate and significant degree, with coupled disabilities and for children and adolescents with a decision on the need for special education due to autism or Asperger's syndrome. The company has been cooperating with the facility for almost 30 years.
As part of the concluded agreement, the center promotes the patron and the history of its activities, inseparably connected with the history of Poland. Pupils adopted for work can also have practices assisted at a post office in Skawina. In specially adapted positions, they deal with, among others segregation and ordering letters and packages and observe customer service at the window. Practices are a chance for them to familiarize with the labor market and acquire specific skills that help to achieve independence.
- Poczta Polska is a company that is involved in anti -exclusion actions. We help adults and adolescents who may have difficulties on the labor market. In the case of a center in Skawina - it allows her to gain experience in the open labor market, and not only on the sheltered labor market. Not only here anyway. We also give a job to almost 1,700 people with disability rulings throughout Poland. We sensitize employees to how many benefits work in a variety of environment, consisting of people with different needs and possibilities - says Andrzej Bodziony, vice president of the Poczta Polska Board.
From October this year. The center also begins cooperation with the Poczta Polska Foundation - "Postal Dar". The first joint project of new partners is the organization of the event entitled "Friendship in the trumpet in the coat of arms", which is related to the upcoming holidays - the day of Poczta Polska and the day of national education. Initiative participants will have the opportunity to visit a historical stand dedicated to the patron of the company and the foundation's stand, as well as take part in an art competition and a number of interesting animations.
- The Pocztowy Dar Foundation initiates and supports undertakings, as well as entities that help those in need. We start cooperation with the center in Skawina by looking at the needs of the pupils living in this place. We want to jointly implement activities that will bring real benefits and will satisfy the expectations of the center as the widest possible. The potential of cooperation is huge. The Foundation has a lot of experience in helping, and the center is open and ready to implement joint initiatives - says Marek Makuch, president of the Pocztowy Foundation "Pocztowy Dar" and director of the Human Resources and Training Center at Poczta Polska.
Currently, about 1,700 people with a disability certificate work in Poczta Polska, which is 2.68 % of all employees. In the company, he has been binding for years a "policy of employing people with disabilities" , which sets goals and directions of action, and is also a kind of declaration regarding the equalization of the opportunities of employing people at risk of exclusion on the labor market.
Poczta Polska won II for their activities for the professional activation of people with disabilities. Place in the Open Labor Market category in the Lodołamacze competition at the central level (2020). As the largest employer in the country, the company shows social sensitivity - it employs people at risk of exclusion on the labor market. She also won the jubilee competition of icebreakers at regional levels (2020) covering the Łódź, Mazowieckie, Greater Poland and West Pomeranian voivodships. In the competition for the title, the employer trustworthy (2019) Poczta Polska won in the category a company friendly company.
