Drexel University Polish Society (DUPS)

06/13/2023

Come out to the Polish Home beer garden this Friday and every Friday of the summer!

Beautiful day for a cold beer!!!!
See you at the Beer Garden!!!

03/08/2022

Czesc Wszyscy,

We know many of you have already donated your time, supplies, and money to the humanitarian emergency in Ukraine following the Russian aggression. Nonetheless, we wanted to ask for your generosity once more.
Fundacja Happy Kids is supporting the Ukrainian Ministry of Social Policy and working with the United Nations Global Compact Network Poland to coordinate the evacuation of Ukrainian children from institutional orphanages and foster homes. Evacuated children and care-givers are then placed in foster families and family-based orphanages all over Poland that offers help. The Foundation has experience in running orphanages for the last 21 years, and the Crisis Response Team is run by Aleksandra K. Wiśniewska, Oxford and LSE alumna and former Head of Yemen Mission at Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) supported by Karol Kras and Przemysław Macholak, LSE and UPenn alumni, but as you can imagine this is a challenge no one could have prepared for. As such we need support to scale the operations to accommodate the growing needs. Over the first 6 days, we have coordinated the evacuation of 2,000+ children. Given that before the war there were more than 100,000 children in institutional foster care in Ukraine, out of which approximately 20,000-30,000 in the highest-risk areas, we are expecting the need to evacuate to only increase over the coming days.
The donations will be spent on transportation, fuel costs, and then, once the children are safely evacuated, long-term accommodation of their psychological, medical, and educational needs.
You can find the link here: https://www.siepomaga.pl/en/sieroty-ukrainy (once you proceed to donate, by clicking on "more payment methods" you can use Google Pay and PayPal among others).
Given international developments, we are preparing for the humanitarian crisis to be a long-term one, and as such mindful of our capacity, we want to include partners from other countries to help in the efforts.
If you know of any individual person or organization that could help, please refer them to [email protected]!

In the interest of preserving the life and health of children, in the face of the ongoing war in Ukraine, The Children’s Aid ‘Happy Kids’ Foundation, in cooperation with the City of Łódź, has launched an action to save the most vulnerable victims: children from orphanages and foster...

11/13/2019

Consider applying to this Poland Program for next summer!!!!! 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱😁😁😁

Applications are now being accepted for the positions of Teachers and Teachers' Aides for summer opportunities in Poland. Please visit our website for details and the application: http://eagle-orzel.org/. Check back frequently for information on further developments and opportunities!

01/07/2019

Happy New Year! Our next general body meeting will be this Wednesday, Jan 9, 2019 at 8-9PM in the WW Hagerty Library Room 210, hope to see you there!

05/02/2018

Happy Polonia and Polish Flag Day!
Today we celebrate the Polish Flag Day and the Day of Polish Diaspora and Poles Living Abroad.

Polish Flag Day (formally: Flag of the Republic of Poland Day, Dzień Flagi Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) was first observed on May 2, 2004. It was established in order to educate the Polish people about the history and significance of national symbols. The date was chosen to coincide with the Polonia Day traditionally observed by the Polish diaspora outside Poland and the Polish Senate on May 2.

Since the re-introduction of the Constitution Day in 1990 and establishment of the Polish Flag Day, the flag is flown continuously during the first three days of May. Unlike May Day and Constitution Day, the Flag Day is not a public holiday, although making a bridge, i.e. taking a day off on that day is common practice.

The flag of Poland consists of two horizontal stripes of equal width, the upper one white and the lower one red. The two colors are defined in the Polish constitution as the national colors. A variant of the flag with the national coat of arms in the middle of the white stripe is legally reserved for official use abroad and at sea. A similar flag with the addition of a swallow-tail is used as the naval ensign of Poland.

White and red were officially adopted as national colors in 1831. They are of heraldic origin and derive from the tinctures (colors) of the coats of arms of the two constituent nations of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, i.e. the White Eagle of Poland and the Pursuer of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, a white knight riding a white horse, both on a red shield. Prior to that, Polish soldiers wore cockades of various color combinations. The national flag was officially adopted in 1919.

The flag is flown continuously on the buildings of the highest national authorities, such as the parliament and the presidential palace. Other institutions and many Polish people fly the national flag on national holidays and other special occasions of national significance.

11/29/2017

Andrzejki!!

She loves me, she loves me not; she loves me, she loves me not…Even in today’s digital age, superstitions abound when it comes to finding love. A quick Google search will yield many of them. …

11/15/2017

🇵🇱 Konzert!!, 15$ at the door on December 8th, 8PM at The Associated Polish Home on Academy Road

11/08/2017

Just another amazing thing about POLSKA!!!!

She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize in two fields, and the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

11/08/2017

Such a beautiful language!! ❤️

The Polish language may be difficult, but we often forget that it's also mysteriously beautiful.