Book&Help returns for the eighth time. And as every year, it’s about something very simple: about books, people and helping. We cordially invite you to join the action! You can give books, handicrafts and other goodies. You can also, which we strongly encourage you to do, simply go to the fair on June 13 at V LO, buy a volume or a cake and thus help the kids from the hospital at Polanki Street in Gdańsk.
How did it start and what is it about?
Exactly! It all started in 2018, when the students and teachers of the V High School in Oliwa decided to do something good for the Polanki Children’s Hospital adjacent to the school. This is how Book&Help was created – a charity book fair, which engages more and more people every year. The mechanism is simple. Companies and their employees, residents of Gdańsk, their families and friends of the action collect books, gadgets, handicrafts and goodies, and everything later goes to a big family fair. The income from the event is entirely used to purchase equipment for the hospital. In 2025, 16 thousand zlotys were collected, the year before a record 20 thousand! Let’s not delay, let’s act together!
Thanks to previous editions , inhalers, pulse oximeters, specialized children’s beds, oxygen therapy equipment and ward equipment were purchased, among m.in others. These are things that really serve the youngest patients every day.
We cordially invite you to the finale of this year’s edition, which will take place June 13 (Saturday), from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the courtyard of the V Primary School in Oliwa. As always, you will be able to find hundreds of books at great prices, buy homemade pastries, check out the handicraft stalls, try your luck in the raffle and spend a few good hours in a fantastic atmosphere. All this to help the youngest patients of the Polanki Children’s Hospital.
How can you get involved now?
You can:
- collect books among your employees or friends (new or well-maintained),
- donate company gadgets or small prizes to the lottery,
- donate their handmade products,
- bake 1-2-3 cakes for the fair (without cream or jelly!),
- take part in the event on 13.06.2026.
The deadline for handing over books, gadgets and handicrafts to V LO is Wednesday, June 3, 2026.
You can:
- throw a penny into THIS piggy bank V LO.
Who to contact?
You are a representative of the company:
- write to Ula, coordinator of the organizing team: urszula.elias@scania.com
You are an individual and want to donate things for auction/sale.
- deliver them to the V LO from 21 May to 3 June, refer to Kasia Tusk-Olczak (coordinator on behalf of the school) or Dorota Bandzmer, who works in the library.
Because sometimes it really doesn’t take much to do something good. One book you read or your master apple pie can help someone a lot more than you think.
Fig. vlo.gda.pl
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