Barka Foundation for Mutual Help was established as a response to increasing social problems during  transformation years. Barbara and Tomasz Sadowski wanted to create conditions in which the “forgotten and unwanted” could have a chance for personal growth and social development.

Today we wanted help polish homeless (but not only) in UK. Thinking about them we've created polish oranization in London - BarkaUK.

Due to the difficult situation of “work migrants” from the New Accession Countries (A8) in Great Britain, the Barka Foundation was invited for cooperation by two British organisations, Simon Community and Housing Justice UNLEASH, in August 2006. In September a Polish – British Mission for Employment was established. The project is aimed at providing assistance to “work migrants” who fail to find employment, end up on the streets and are  subject to quick degradation processes. Soon after launching the PBME project, we were contacted by various organizations and institutions from other Member States which face the same problems as the United Kingdom. In October 2006 creation of a European Migrants’ Integration Network (EuroMI) was initiated. The basic principles of the network were included in the appeal to the European Commission. The Euro MI representatives contributed to the Closing Conference of the European Year of Workers’ Mobility which was organized by the European Commission in Lille in France (11.12.12.2006). They presented  the basic aims of the European  Network  for Migrants Integrationwhich is being created. (short report) We would like to encourage you to engage in the EuroMI network and log in on our website in order to support our common initiative. If you log in, we will send you a newsletter on the most recent developments of the network and migration issues in general. You will also have the opportunity to decide about the priorities as well as co-create projects for migrants’ integration across Europe. 

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