Children’s Holiday Smile’ Fundraiser
Thanks to PSFCU Member donations, $110,578 was raised to make an enormous impact on the lives of the children in three different hospices in Poland as well as terminally ill ones in the United States.
The ‘Children’s Holiday Smile’ fundraiser was launched by PSFCU, along with New York’s Children’s Smile Foundation, the day after Thanksgiving. Three Polish children’s hospices were the beneficiaries of this year’s fundraising drive:
- Hospice operated by Caritas of the Archdiocese of Warmia in Olsztyn ($36,547.68), which was recommended by Poland’s First Lady, Agata Kornhauser-Duda
- Wroclaw Hospice for Children Foundation ($35,076.74); and
- Rev. Eugeniusz Dutkiewicz SAC Hospice in Gdansk ($22,616.41).
- An additional $16,336.95 was donated to the Children’s Smile Foundation to aid sick Polish-American children being treated in the United States.
Since the Children’s Holiday Smile campaign began in 2014, the Polish-American community in New York, New Jersey, and the Chicago area has contributed a total of $610,000 to children’s hospices in Poland and needy sick children in the United States.