Adventist Doctor Honoured by the Polish Minister of Health
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February 21, 2021
On Tuesday 2 February, during the meeting of the Regional Medical Chamber in Łódź, Poland the award For contributions to health protection was officially presented to, among others, an Adventist doctor Tomasz Karauda.
Dr Karauda, in cooperation with the Kulczyk Foundation, donated over PLN 20 million (approx. USD$ 5 million) to the ‘Doctors for Doctors Foundation’ in April 2020. With those funds almost 60 tons of personal protective equipment was purchased and delivered to doctors in Poland. This was at the time when such equipment and resources were needed the most. A phone call from the president of the Regional Medical Chamber informing Dr Karauda of the award he was to receive, came as a complete surprise. “For me, this distinction means further motivation and a sign from God that I am going in the right direction, which is to continue saving people s health and lives,”
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Published on: 12-29-2020
Forty kilometers (about 25 miles) southwest of Warsaw, the capital of Poland, lies the commuter town of Podkowa Leśna. This small city is surrounded by forest on three sides from the east, south, and north. Since 1959 it’s been home to the Polish Senior College of Theology and Humanities (PCTH), and more recently the School of Foreign Languages the only Adventist school in a country of 38 million people.
“For decades Adventist parents have dreamed about the possibility of being able to send their child to an Adventist [elementary] school,” says Dorothy Porawski-Orzechowska, the first director of a school program for kindergarten and grades 1-3, located on the college campus since 2015. The enrollment for those grades currently comprises 10 Adventist children and five from the wider Podkowa Leśna community. In 2018 the curriculum was expanded, and enrollment grew to maximum capacity, with a waiting list of other appli