Today, I would like to involve you in an important campaign.

Recently I became a member of the European Advisory Group of the liberal organization Catholics for a Free Choice.

Their recent campaign is Condoms for Life and part of this campaign is a letter to Pope Benedict XVI, asking him to lift the ban on condom use for HIV prevention.
I strongly encourage you to read the letter and sign it if you agree, even if you are not Catholic and pass this information to others.

The campaign is especially important for people in Catholic countries like mine, where many people still listen to and follow the Church preachings.

Here's the link

Thank you for your interest.

I love to walk from my home in the center of Warsaw to a small street hidden behind large modern buildings. The street's name is Prozna and it is one of the few in Warsaw which were saved from German bombings during the war. The climate is incredible there, the houses are really destroyed but you feel the weight of their history. The house where I live was built on the ruins of the Jewish ghetto and, since I come from Lublin,a town in eastern Poland with rich Jewish tradition and location of a Nazi concentration camp during WWII, I feel deeply moved by this fact.

Here is the link to Jewish places in Warsaw

On 14th February, Valentine's Day, my group of youth educators organized a street action in the center of Warsaw. We wanted to increase HIV/AIDS awareness among young people. We managed to find a sponsor who gave us 700 condoms for distribution and the national prevention center gave us 300 more. Our plan was to involve passers-by in our action by giving them pink pieces of paper to write their slogans concerning the topic. We hung these slogans on the line behind us. People who wished received pink baloons from us on which they could also write. Our volunteers distributed leaflets and condoms and encouraged people to e-mail us if they shoud have personal questions. Quickly leaflets and consoms ran out as many people were interested. The funny thing was that next to us Polish group of far-right youth had their own action and they are not very friendly. They rejected our consoms saying they don't use them and shouted some nasty comments at us. Overall we managed to get some media attention - there was press, radio and television.