| Administrative History | Allocations: 1919-1930, 1932-1933, 1939-1940, 1946-1950, 1965-1967, 1971, 1982-1992; programme spending 1993/94; see later annual reports for any subsequent allocations.
Poland is one of the first countries to have received grants from Save the Children (SCF). By the end of 1920, Poland was the seventh largest recipient of SCF aid, with nearly £42,000. Grants were given to the Society of Friends, the Russian Red Cross Fund in Poland, the Polish Refugee Fund, and the British Committee for Relief in Poland. During the 1920s SCF supported feeding centres near Warsaw, a colony of 200 children at Suljiewek, a centre for re-emigrants from Russia at Czestochowa, adoptions, and a Polish orphanage at Otwock (moved to Jabloczyn in 1924). Small grants were made to Poland in the late 1920s and early 1930s. From 1939 SCF provided aid to Poland in relation to Czech and Jewish refugees arriving in the country. In 1940, Polish refugees were aided in France, Hungary, and Romania.
After the Second World War SCF sent supplies to Poland including food, clothing and beds. In April 1946, Mosa Anderson visited Poland to assess the needs of children in the country. As a result SCF established a relief and rehabilitation project at Nieporent, providing medical treatment, supplementary feeding, and assistance with nursery school education. In 1947 a second SCF team was sent to undertake similar post-war relief work at Tuczno. In 1948 SCF sent bales of clothing from its stores to flood victims in Krakow and Rzeszow districts. In the 1950s, the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union compelled SCF to withdraw from some areas in post-war Eastern Europe, including Poland.
From 1981 to 1984 SCF sent consignments of aid to Poland where there were shortages of food and other necessities. |