There are two public benefit organizations in the ARCHE GROUP.
The Association of Arche Community, which helps employees and their children develop their passions, carries out social projects and helps in random situations. The second organization is the Lena Grochowska Foundation, which brings repatriates from Kazakhstan. The Foundation provides them with housing and work. The Foundation also employs people with intellectual disabilities and prepares them for greater independence. In addition, in the Arche Company itself, we employed 14 people with disabilities in the last year. Over the last year, the Association of Arche Community successfully implemented the following programs:
- 500+ one-time benefit in the amount of 500 PLN for Arche employees due to a marriage or the birth of a child;
- HEALTH+ for people quitting smoking (bonus for 6 months for refraining from smoking in the amount of 200 PLN / month);
- PASSION+ scholarships for gifted children of employees paid from September 2019 to March 2020.
The Community, taking care of building regional identity and promoting local products, organized:
Festival of Polish Lands in Janów Podlaski Castle, Łochów Palace and Folwark, and Barracks in Góra Kalwaria; The Bicycle Rally on the Trail of Nadbużańskie Mansions and Guest Houses and the 3rd Triathlon and Paratriathlon of the Lands of Bug with the Lena Grochowska Foundation.
In 2019, as part of the Foundation, we launched the first workplaces for people with intellectual disabilities. The "toMy" Artistic Handcraft Workshop was established in Siedlce with a ceramics and tailoring workshop. Social changes that take place in people with disabilities employed in the Foundation prompted the Foundation to develop and create local branches.
In June 2020, the first local branch of the Foundation was established in Łochów. It is located on the premises of the Łochów Palace and Folwark Łochów and consists of 4 craft houses with workshops: confectionery, ceramics, sculpting and weaving. Currently, the Foundation employs 16 people with disabilities, including 14 with moderate intellectual disabilities.
Working for the Foundation is their first job, even though they are 30-40 or 50 years old. Another 7 people participate in training preparing for work. These are people with various diseases: childhood palsy, down syndrome, hydrocephalus, epilepsy, autism, schizophrenia, as well as with general developmental disorders.
