The Great Orchestra played for the 30th time
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By midnight, during the 30th Final of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, over PLN 136 million were collected. Due to the storm, some concerts had to be canceled or moved to covered rooms, but the Light to Heaven flashed as planned. Warsaw fired traditional firecrackers, although not everyone liked it. Jurek Owsiak announced the end of fireworks, and Rafał Trzaskowski thanked him for this declaration.
As many as 120,000 volunteers in Poland and 29 other countries were gathering money for children's ophthalmology on Sunday. The event was accompanied, among others, by the "Calculate your diabetes" run, winter swimming, concerts, and cooking together.
In addition to the street fundraising, the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity has been collecting money electronically, including through fundraising on Facebook, charity auctions, and thousands of e-moneyboxes. The final is also supported by auctions on Allegro, of which there are over 270,000 this year.
Thanks to the collection, the foundation will support children's ophthalmology. It intends to equip 25 centers with pediatric ophthalmology departments in 17 cities with specialized medical equipment. This is necessary, because every year in Poland, several hundred complicated surgeries of cataracts, glaucoma, or strabismus removal are performed in children. For operations to be as effective as possible, they must be carried out on equipment that is no more than a few years old.
