Polish "Solidarity" Created Fund To Help Protesting Belarusians

The leader of the independent Polish self-governing union "Solidarity" has visited our country.

Piotr Duda said that his trade union would support the unions that continue protests and strikes in Belarus, Radio Poland reports.

One of the forms of support will be a special fund for protesters, but families of members of the Belarusian trade unions should also receive help. The Union has created a fund "Solidarity with Belarus," in which it contributed a million zlotys, which is about 225 thousand euros.

Piotr Duda said that the support should be organized so that it would go to the needy rather than to the people in power.

"Therefore, it is necessary to decide how we will transfer this money. It is not the eighties, when the money for Solidarity was brought even in suitcases. That time has passed. Today we will try to help in a different way. We must find the golden mean: give help and not waste money," - he said.

The money, for example, could be paid in the form of scholarships to the Belarusian youth studying in Poland, or go to finance the rest of Belarusian children in Poland. The chairman of Solidarity calls to contribute money to the account, the number of which is indicated on the website of the union, and guarantees that the fund will transparently and carefully monitor the allocation of funds.

Piotr Duda added that strikers, including miners, explain that they do not want money because, as they say, they do it for the sake of the idea.