In the summer of 2023, the Ukrainian Humanity Center began sponsoring an 8-day overnight summer camp for Ukrainian refugee children in Warsaw. And in August 2025, the adventures continued!
Thank YOU to our dedicated supporters who helped raise the funds to bring these kids such a special experience! The kids range in age 9-14; all of them came to Poland after the Russian attack on Ukraine. To offer the campers the safest and most enjoyable time, we teamed up with Fundacja Wawer in Warsaw, an organization who is passionately involved in organizing events that connect generations, integrate the local community and support the educational development of children and youth. We at the UHC know that building friendships and community is vital for children and their families.
These faces are at the heart of our mission!
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Wheels on the train go round and round. To do so, we met early at the East Warsaw Station, took a few photos, said goodbye to our parents and off we went to Zakopane. In the early afternoon we got to our new, camp “home” and had time to unpack, get to know each other and to rest. After dinner and siesta, we had time to set the ground rules, more integration, games and activities. The first night in Zakopane is ahead of us.

Day 2, Saturday
Rainy day doesn’t mean boring day! How do we know that? Well, we’ve been there and still managed to have fun. Thankfully we have a lot of ideas and board games. And the favorite one – "Mafia" (a social role-playing game). We took opportunity of a moment of sunshine and went to Krupówki street the heart of Zakopane. Kids could feel it’s atmosphere, visit shops, buy some souvenirs and they really liked it! Since the weather remained good, after supper we spent evening on outer activities: relay races, tug-of-war and other similar disciplines. It was a lot of fun!

Day 3, Sunday
It was a truly trappy day and a very long one. We hiked throughout the city, we had the opportunity to see the ski jump "Wielka Krokiew". We continued hiking along the road "Under the Reglami", the real climbing began on the way to the cave "Hole". We rested in the cool and quiet cave and ... went on to the Strążyska Valley, which culminated in the beautiful waterfall "Siklawica" - we took pictures here. We were very, very tired but it was not the end of the day....
In the evening, we went to the Chocholow Thermal Baths. There is everything here: warm healing water from the depths of the earth, slides, various pools - there is something for everyone. Believe it - we
slept really well that night.

Day 4, Monday
Another rainy day, another play day. Breakfast at 8:00 and then lots of time for fun. We played team-building games, learn the game "Talarek", "all who..." and the ever-present "Mafia".In the afternoon, taking advantage of the rainless moment, we go to the store (a must ;) and to the nearby school field. Here, inspired by the ongoing Olympics, we practice such sports as long jump, hurdles and short distance running. The boys began, of course, with a short game of soccer.

Day 5, Tuesday
Another mountain day. After breakfast, we set off on foot to Kuznice (a district in Zakopane). Here we met our mountain guide and together headed to the cable car station. It was awesome! Great views of precipices, dwarf pine, rocks, trees from above are better than any tik tok . We looked carefully through the windows of the cable car hoping to see mountain goats or marmots but none of them never appeared (probably too many tourists on trails scared them). After 20 minutes we are at the upper station of the cable car (1959 m. a.s.l.). Along the border with Slovakia we climbed to our first two-thousand-meter peak - "Beskid" (2012 m. a.s.l.). We were lucky to have a good weather up there.
It was sunny and windy, and we managed to climb to the very top of Kasprowy Wierch (1987 m. a.s.l.).
While descending we admired the view of High Tatras. Afterwards we had relax time.

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