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.

Press conference organized by my group PONTON to promote the summer hotline for teenagers. From the left: me, group coordinator Ola, sexologist expert Alicja, and PONTON volunteer Marta

My group has launched a summer project called "Summer Emergency Hotline." Every day until the end of September a volunteer has a four-hour duty during which she or he answers phone calls, or calls people back to talk to them if they don't have enough money to make a longer call on a cell phone, or answers questions posted through text messages.

Our objective is to provide information about sexuality, contraception and prevention. We though that a phone hotline would be a good addition to our usual method of answering quaestion through emails, especially in the summer, when young people are spending time away from home, and Internet access.

To promote the action, we organized a press conference. The announcements about the hotline have been posted on the websites of other NGOs, and on the radio. Some journalists from dailies and TV became more interested in the project and took some additional photos, and arranged interviews with our group coordinator. We also had stickers with the telephone number printed and placed in buses and clubs.

So far the hotline has been very popular.

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 Sunday, March 5 in Warsaw the annual 8th feminist march took place. I went with my boyfriend, parents and my group of peer sexual educators Ponton. There were about 2000 people and we walked along the main street of the city, escorted by police. The political climate in Poland is not favourable to feminist and pro-choice views because our president and government is very conservative and catholic. The manifestation was organized not only to stress that women demand equality in the workplace but it was also a sign of opposition against the current authorities who are against women's equality, homosexuality, contraception and abortion. There was a group of ultra-conservative youth who did not follow the manifestation but showed tv teams that they have soap to "wash away dirty thoughts." There was a special moving platform where children of manifestants could play and sing.

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.