Photo: Tomasz Pietrzyk / Agencja Wyborcza.pl
Podlasie expresses solidarity with the flood victims in southern Poland. To do this, the collection of the most necessary has been announced. Everyone can join the action.
The authorities of Bialystok also announced the collection of necessary things for flood victims. From September 16, essential goods can be brought to the center of public activity at St. Roch Street 3. The gathering will be held every day until 20 o’clock, informs Urszula Prystupa, director of the Center for Public Activity.
“We collect food with a long shelf life, hygiene products, animal feed and water. We bring hygiene products and food into the building, and water can be left in the parking lot in front of the building of the Center for Public Activity,” she says.
Citizens of Belarus, who have found their second home here due to persecution in their homeland, also joined the aid campaign.
The authorities of Bialystok plan to allocate funds from the city budget to help specific areas affected by the flood. The mayor of Bialystok, Tadeusz Truskolaski, who has to talk with the city’s relatives about transferring funds, wants the amount to be at least 500 thousand zlotys.
Three people died, thousands of people were left homeless – this is the tragic result of flooding in southern Poland. Today, the Polish government has imposed a state of natural disaster in the south of the country. There are many areas under threat from now on. Thus, the mayor of Wroclaw, Jacek Sutryk, said that according to forecasts, the flood wave on the Odra River will begin to pass through the city on Wednesday at about 18 o’clock. The flood control shafts are being strengthened. The wave can pass through the city for several days.