If you get lost in the Tatras today, you'll need sponsors to airlift you away

Sponsors will support the Tatra Volunteer Mountain Rescue (TOPR) for the next 2 months, as the government allocation has run out. In return for the funds, the rescue workers will advertise their sponsors. The 92-year-old TOPR has long been lobbying for change in the policy of financing its operations as it has been receiving a decreasing amount of funds from the Sports and Tourism Office (UKFiS).TOPR has currently only 21 professional full-time rescue workers, the remaining 80 are volunteers and receive zl. 18 per day. Jan Krzysztof, chief of TOPR, told Rzeczpospolita that it is a mistake that TOPR is supervised by UKFiS, "As a rescue service, just as the fire department, we should be affiliated with the Interior and Administration Ministry." (Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) M.T.K.