Janusz Prud, is a Polish SVD (Divine World Missionary brother) living in Botswana. In a village in which he had been residing for the last two years he decided to build up a nursery. This is what he says about the idea:

Migrations and sending communities – benefits or losses?

According to professor Jan Zamojski, migrations, “due to their spatial scope  and mass character exercise impacts in all the spheres of both – sending and receiving societies”[1]. Professor Krystyna Slany stresses that “voluntary migrations have always corresponded to hopes of individuals and groups pretending to improve their situation – usually in the economic sense, but often in the social or religious way as well. But independently from the reasons of mobility movements, they induce the emergence of similar problems – the legal, the economic, the humanitarian, the social, the political, the cultural and the psychological ones” [2]. Therefore it is worth asking whether and how migrations shape changes in the sending communities? How can we assess the balance of benefits and problems resulting from migration?

Globalne zmiany klimatu. Może tak, może nie…

Globalne ocieplenie zdaje się dominować pośród rozmaitych horrorów zagrażających zdrowiu i życiu mieszkańców Ziemi. Przestała już być „modna” dziura ozonowa, a groźba upadku asteroidy wciąż nie może się przebić na łamy prasy. Natomiast specjaliści Międzyrządowego Panelu ds. Zmian Klimatu (IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) wodzą rej wśród reprezentantów innych dziedzin wiedzy epatując opinię publiczną kolejnymi raportami wieszczącymi nadchodzącą katastrofę.

The problem of slums 

The dictionary definition describes slums as quarters of the poor in a big city [2]. It seems useless to look for another, broader and more comprehensive definition of this concept, because depending on the continent, country or city slums differ greatly from one another. There is a list of distinctive features, however, out of which at least two will be true for every poverty quarter. They are: no access to basic sanitation and unhygienic living conditions, illegal, makeshift buildings, dangerous location, overpopulation, poverty and social exclusion, diseases and crime.