Holiday charitable campaign delivers Christmas packages to 9,000 kids

Nine thousand children from the poorest families in Poland will receive special Christmas gift packages from Polska Akcja Humanitarna (PAH) this year. The Christmas 2000 campaign, called "Pajacyk" was organized under the auspices of Rzeczpospolita together with Era GSM mobile telecom operator, which donated zl.1 million. Some of the packages, full of candy and school supplies, have already been distributed at schools and kindergartens, and the rest will go to children before Christmas. In one of the schools, the grateful children decided to prepare red paper hearts with their signatures that will later be sent to the organizers of "Pajacyk." Throughout the year PAH collects money from private individuals as well as companies to buy dinners for over 2,000 children around the country. According to fund workers, this is the only hot meal of the day for many of the children. (Rzeczpospolita, p.A5) J.K.