WOŚP - The Great Orchestra of Christmas Help

Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy (Great Orchestra of Christmas Help) is a charity organisation. 22 years ago Jerzy Owsiak and his friends founded it.

 

 

Every year this organisation helps thousand of people by organising a one day fund raising called a final for children and old people. In thousand of big cities, towns and villages people organise concerts and other attractions during which money is collected.

 

 

 

 

Every year, millions of Poles donate their money to the Foundation and, between 1993 and 2005, they collected more than $60 million for public hospitals in Poland.

New Year in Poland

In Poland similar to other countries we celebrate the end of the old year and the beginning of New Year. On that day usually people go to parties. New Year's Eve is called in Poland "Sylwester" because 31st of December it's Sylwester's nameday.

Generally, people go to parties to be with friends, family, to dance and drink. This is a special day, when people want to have a good time.

 

The other tradition about New Year is drinking champagne at midnight to welcome New Year. People like to drink champagne to have good luck in the coming New Year.

 

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At midnight on New Year we let the fireworks.

 

It looks so wonderful so everybody can admire it!

They say that what happenes in New Year's Day, will happen during all the New Year.

That's why people want to celebrate it in the most fantastic way.

It is good to get into New Year without debts, unfinished business.

New Year's resolutions:

This time of year people usually make New Year's resolutions.

They promise themselves  to change something in their lives, for example to quit smoking, to start living on a diet or to save money.

Unfortunately, people often forget about these resolutions in the middle of the year.