What do the children like?

Children at age:

• 0-3 y. like rattles, teddy bears, toy-bricks (such as LEGO, Duplo)
• 3-6 like also teddy bears, puzzles, toy-bricks, any kind of games and stuff for drawing, writing, painting (pens, pensils, crayons, paints but also paper-blocks, color paper-blocks), team-games accessories (such as ball, ping-pong set - rockets, balls, badmington set, etc), toy-cars, interesting books, bowls, jumping-ropes
• 6-13 like teddy bears, team-games' accessories, interesting books, diaries
• 13 and more like music CDs, cosmetics, play CDs, DVDs

Bank account

69 2130 0004 2001 0451 4832 0001 (VW Bank)

Account is owned by Podaj Rękę Association, which is the Event's patronate.

The address of the association:

Stowarzyszenie PODAJ RĘKĘ 

Miłocin 23 

83-020 Cedry Wielkie 

Warszawa

• ul. Hoża 69, Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych and Wydział Fizyki UW , collection point: NCBJ building, contact person: Tomasz Fruboes, email: groke83@gmail.comx
• ul. Grzybowska 5a, Fundacja Amber, contact person: Magda Juwko, mail: magdalena.juwko@ambe­rfundacja.plx
• ul. Rudzka 18, RWE, contact person: marek.gajowczyk@op.plx
• ul. Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie 41, RWE, contact person: marek.gajowczyk@op.plx
• ul. Wiertnicza 26, XXXVIII Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Stanisława Kostki Potockiego, contact person: Anna Nowak-Łoś, email: anialos1@interia.plx
• ul. Taneczna 54/58, Szkoła Podstawowa nr 100, contact person: Bartosz Popczyński, tel. 507 777 333, mail: bikebarti@interia.plx

Radom

• ul. Bolesława Chrobrego 1, Galeria Słoneczna, contact person: Iga Około-Zubkowska email: iga.zubkowska@galeriasloneczna.plx
• ul. Bolesława Chrobrego 3, AquaPark, contact person: Iga Około-Zubkowska email: iga.zubkowska@galeriasloneczna.plx

Otwock-Świerk

• ul. Andrzeja Sołtana 7, Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych, 05-400 Otwock-Świerk, collection point: Physics building, room 115, contact persons: Maja Surowicz (505 981 386) m.surowicz@ncbj.gov.plx, Paulina Gryżewska p.gryzewska@ncbj.gov.plx

NOTE! There is a suffix "x" at the end of every e-mail address, which was added in order to avoid spam messages. You have to remove the suffix "x" before sending an e-mail. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Where and how can I prepare a collecting point?

If you want to organise a collection point, choose the place in such a way to let the people, who have seen the poster, easily come and give the toys. Think about the security of the toys. If it is and academic site, ensure yourself that someone will be present at the collection point throughout the hole day. The worst thing that may happen for the donators is not to meet anybody in the collection point. Experience of the previous years says that the best places are: secretaries, cloak-rooms, students organisations, etc. A great interest about the Action is usually met in offices and private companies. We benefit for being known by all the people we are working with. If you can not deliver the toys from collecting point to the packing point - don't worry, just contact us and we will organise the transportation.

Posters

Posters can be taken here:

Wydział Elektroniki i Technik Informacyjnych
(The Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology) Warsaw University of Technology
Nowowiejska 15/19 str., room 46A (by Politechnika Square)
00-665 Warsaw
tel. (+48 22) 234-7818
contact to students' union: elka[maupa]samorzad.pw.edu.pl

.. or downloaded (and printed by yourself) from here: poster 2009

How does the distribution of the gifts look like?

The Idea of the Charity Event is simple. We distribute the gifts in 24th of December. Especially on this day we need people and cars. This moment is always problematic. Although every year the number of the volunteers is increasing, the number of toys increases even more. Therefore if You want to help us do not hesitate to write us. We will appreciate your help. You will not be alone, usually we distribute the goods in two or three people groups (it depends on the number of cars/number of volunteers ratio). We try to build up the teams in such a way that there is at least one experienced person (someone who was taking part in the action previously) in the car. As we are in phone contact - every time you can ask for the support. This Charity Event is created by every one of us - people who want to offer, in this special day, to someone more in need. So, if You want to join the "Teddy Bear Action" this day You are warmly welcomed.

Thanks to many great people, who help us organize the Event or give the toys, we are able to organize this Event every year. So every year we express our gratitude to those people (to all that we could remember) on these Event's web pages. Some of those great people have their own companies, which means we can express our gratitude in a form of an advertisement - linking to their web pages :).

Here they are: