by ROMAN, 2025.12.19 - 10.50 GMT

Is the UK first ever 'safe third country' with active relocations status for the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum? It looks like, for the right-wing politicians at most. But the answer is "NO". No, even in front of the fact that over 1000 people came from the EU to the UK this week again.

This week brought two crucial things relating to migration challenges all we face in Europe. First one is the EU definition of 'safe third country' (when it comes to deporting migrants coming to the EU from or via countries free from conflicts and - what's essential - fully willing to take people back from the European Union).

The other thing is something related to the "Local Return Hub F4A", which seems to be the only working methodology for voluntary returns (that entire Europe can offer to migrants from safe countries of origin). So, we got a message from the EU Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency saying we were... REJECTED.

But... Having seen the evaluation, it surprised us much. They say that 9 out of 10 criteria are all right. The only one implying rejection is lack of the 20% pre-commitment for the investment! It's nothing unusual when you do innovative startup focused on making money. But we do a social innovation startup to deal with migration crisis.

According to our real-world knowledge & field experience in migrant crisis, voluntary returns are the only way to secure the future of Europe. Europe is ready to cope with everything but migration issues. Number of migrants in Europe and round the European borders is just too big to move ahead with old methodologies.

Up to 82% of migrants can return voluntarily to the SDG8 managerial jobs in safe origin countries, when we've got that 20%. It's not much at all. £500k is almost nothing to let go a great stream of returns based on local development in the most challenging areas of Africa. Nobody but us with such a working methodology, in fact.

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by ROMAN, 2025.09.30 - 12.00 BST

Poland is underrepresented in all international organisations. You have to be born in Poland to get why. Poles - probably - are best at electing politicians promising more than fulfilling. Elected politicians are usually limiting opportunities of growth to Polish experts doing their real-world job (instead of supporting politicians without raising questions). This way Poland is constantly represented in international organisations rather by politicians or their close allies than experts.

Now we've got this interesting case with two Polish candidates running for an open call at UN. UNHCR is looking for someone who can lead that crucial organisation through piling up challenges of today's world. One comes from Polish politics with full support of the Polish authorities. His name is Szymon Hołownia - the best speaker for the Polish parliament ever, and former social activist running some NGOs providing food and shelter to people and children in need.

The other one is me, in fact. I'm not member of any party and I have no governmental support to run for that position. What I've got is just my real-world experience, knowledge and years of activities in local development and crisis response in the most challenging areas of Africa, including urban slums and remote villages. We know each other, I was trully supporting him when he was leading one of the most important centrist movements in Poland. Now - people say - we can be like David and Goliath. It's hardly comparable, there are also candidates from other countries. However, let's check how it goes.

Even though I'm taller than Szymon, he is definitely more powerful than me. He is a member of the Polish parliament and takes part in lawmaking. Other Polish politicians like Anna Maria Żukowska from the Labour-like party find it as disadvantage. Polish government has limited human rights in the Poland - Belarus border zone and all we were surprised that Hołownia supported it. I'm not supporting it at all. I even put a motion, together with my team of professionals in migration policymaking, to the parliament of Poland to establish - at last - the Polish national agency for the international development. Poland is the only big EU country with no such agency. Therefore, Poland has no capacity to deal with humanitarian reintegration of migrants crossing the Poland - Belarus border in an irregular way. 

Another issue people compare between Szymon Hołownia and Roman Mazur is what we've been doing in Africa. There are at least two NGOs Szymon was involved in, that still operate in challenging parts of Africa. Actually, I had known who is Szymon many years before we met each other bacuse of his activities in Africa. What I've been doing in Africa deosen't relate to providing food and shelter to people in need. What I and my team of professionals do in Africa is creating jobs in the most challenging areas like urban slums and remote villages. We invented and developed a scalable system of instant job creation working literarly in any part of the global South. We make people work to let them be able to buy food and shelter by themselves. This relates also to refugees. And we are even able to attract migrants back to a great work in their safe origin countries according to the EU Court of Justice ruling about safe countries.

Szymon has not much of experience in research and development in international environement. I'm coming with the the higher education background backed up not only by the "Floor4Africa" programme I inveneted by myself and I've been successfully carrying out with a great team of professionals in 4 sub-Saharan Africa countries now. UNHCR's mission is far from becoming an NGO. I know very well what kind of numbers are related to migration nowadays. Today's world is mch different from the one we saw 5 or 10 years ago. My attitude to migrants and refugees is full of scientific methods. We do a lot of the comparative research before and after programme implementations. It makes our migrants' work very efficient also with "Return Hubs".

Szymon is not an expert in the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. I'm one of the top professionals dealing with it: www.paktmigracyjny.eu We have not much of support of the Polish authorities Szymon is part of. It happens in front of the Pact coming with strategic gaps related to 'return hubs'. The EU was never informed that there are experts who know how to make returns a working solution. Without them even democracy can be affected in countries like Poland. Far-right movements are really growing in polls. It's clearly visible with the support lost by Szymon's party in less than two years. I realise they missed a lot of opportunities to grow, including our achievements in managing over migration crisis. This is also some sort of disadvantage for Szymon to move ahead from the party-leader seat to the UNHCR.

So, this is how we look like in general when you compare two Polish candidates. We'll see how it goes. I'm really feeling like I've got nothing but my real-world experience and knowledge to change the future of migrants and refugees. I'm not running away from anything to get the job. Actually, I'm a migrant by myself. Migrant for ca. 20yrs.

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by STANISLAW, 2025.09.01 - 10.40

The "Floor4Africa" ​​programme is changing lives not only in Africa. Construction of simple concrete floors lets us create jobs in data analysis, even for people living with disabilities in Europe. It's not just a matter of aesthetics – it's about fighting dust, bacteria, and diseases that affect health and disrupt learning, especially for children. At a very low cost, people improve their health and have access to local jobs. It's one of the main reasons to stay in their communities rather than to migrate to Europe.

An innovative program, only local resources, zero carbon footprint. And it supports the Sustainable Development Goals. Aminata from Sierra Leone told us: "Without dust, children are healthier; we don't have to flee from the countryside to the slums, from the slums to unknown..." The simple "Floor4Africa" ​​program does make migration for work hardly mandatory. It even reduces the pressure on urban overpopulation, as noted by UN Habitat.

But that's not all. To manage over migration even more effectively, we should already be testing return hubs – great, social innovation startups supporting migrants in reintegrating into their safe origin countries. Based on the "Floor4Africa" ​​programme, we have developed a highly efficient "F4A" return system. Imagine hubs offering Project Manager training based on the years of experience of the "Floor4Africa" ​​programme.

It can provide real support for migrants in building a stable life in their own country. It's a key to the growth of local communities and a systematic decline in migration needs. Building return hubs now is an investment in the future of Africa and Europe, too. Because what will stop migration today? Migration should no longer be a necessity. We have everything we need to act.

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by GRAZYNA, 2025.07.07 - 12.15

Today Poland introduces a selective control activities on its German and Lithuanian borders. All three countries are benefiting from the EU agreement of open internal borders called "Schengen Area". This decision is Poland's response to the migration crisis growing before the next-year EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. Disinformation on migration issues makes some Polish citizens gather by the border crossing points in Poland. They try to keep an eye on the German Police that is said to readmit migrants coming to them from Poland. All this happens in front of the fact we are promoting our new book "F4A" on deling with raising migration from Africa  - as we do it thaks to our Floor4Africa Programme working like local return hub (focused on attracting migrants back to the SDG8 jobs in safe home countries).

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by ROMAN, 2025.07.06 - 23.25

We've said a final 'Goodbye' to Jared - the Headteacher of St. Juliet's School we are co-operating with. His unexpected death touched all people who knew him. Not only in Kibera, Nairobi or in Kenya. He'll be remembered in Africa and in Europe. Rest in peace, dear Friend.

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by GRAZYNA, 2025.05.20 - 19.15 BST

First round of the 2025 presidential election was on 18 May. It was another important voting that attracted about 2/3 of voters in Poland. Two candidates have been promoted to the second round. They represent two Poland's biggest political parties. Mr Rafal Trzaskowski and Mr Karol Nawrocki will face each other on 1 June. Trzaskowski is from the governing party. Nawrocki is running with a support of the leading opposition party. Both of them have similar polls now. They cover only 2/3 of all the number of voters. It means Trzaskowski and Nawrocki are starting to fight for people who voted for other candidates. It's going to be a hectic time in that European Union country.

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by ROMAN, 2025.04.14 - 13.15 BST

About 700k asylum seekers only in Kenya now. There are two world biggest refugee camps over there: Kakuma (250k, NW), and Daadad (450k, E). Due to such a big number of people, Kenya had to create Refugees Act in 2021. The point is to integrate - mostly - South-Sundanese and Somali individuals with Kenyan diverse society. The strategy is called “Shirika Plan” and is based on inclusion in national development plans and just in public services. All we know people have to work to integrate. Global Compact on Refugees, affirmed by the UN in 2018, recommends job creation for refugees. Not much of explanations how to do it. However, it's been recommended much. As a matter of fact, we know it well thanks to the Floor4Africa we invented and we’ve been carrying out also since 2018. We will see how it goes, when we're even more active in Kenya than before.

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by ROMAN, 2025.03.02 - 10.40 GMT

We do need a new way of diplomatic activities relating to the war in Ukraine. New American approach to this global problem requires a new global way of thinking to prevent far right European parties from benefiting. The longer we think about sending only more and more money and weapons to the battlefield in Ukraine, the bigger risk for the EU democracy is rising. We do have to send money and weapons to the battlefield but we do have to send a completely new message too. All the elections 2027-2029 in the EU are only in 2-4 years. What can be the game-changer? Something that all the world finds positive and progressive. 13 years ago Poland and Ukraine delivered a great EURO 2012. Now we need even bigger challenge. World Cup 2042 can do the job. Such a big event will focus global attention on peace for the next 17 years, if Poland and Ukraine bid. Would Russia continue with hostail politics in case World Cup would be coming to the CEE? Hardly possible they would cope with fighting against all the world.

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by STANISLAW, 2025.02.14 - 12.15 CET

Love to yourself, love to life and to people around the world is most important to me and my colleagues nowadays. May each day remind you of how much we can be active and how unique we become whan we co-operate with others for general good. If you feel alone today, why not making this day a new 2025 resolution of yours? Do change the way of thinking to take up new challenge for new scopes of love! Start to love international devlopment the way we do. As you see on "Floor4Africa" website it doesn't take much to spread such a love.

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by ROMAN, 2025.02.13 - 20.00 GMT

So, all we in Europe do want Ukraine to take active part in peace talks with Russia. But what we really do to move on with it? Our diplomacy is professional but still with much lower impact factor than American one. However, Polish diplomats are always learning for change… In 2012 Poland and Ukraine delivered a great regional event that focused general attention on this part of the world. Now we do have to go ahead once again, in highly impactful partnership with football. Imagine now all those big headlines everywhere on air with Poland and Ukraine smartly challenging for 2042. Poland Ukraine 2042 - the World Cup with global importance will make the job!

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by ROMAN, 2025.02.06 - 17.00 GMT

February 2025 brings growing numbers of new arrivals in the UK. It took only four days to intercept 400 people coming in small boats via English Channel. British govt data updated daily, open to general public on the official website: here...

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by BARBARA, 2025.01.26 - 14.15 CET

There's the 33rd grand finale of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity today. It's a nationwide fundraising event in Poland. Its symbol is very well recognised all over the EU-member country. This recurring event started in 1993 and happens in January each year. Thousands of young Poles go to the streets with colourful fundraising boxes to let Polish people join the mission. And the mission is to support public health services in Poland, those ones focused on childrens' health at most. The money they raise always goes to the Polish hospitals as brand new appliances and highly advanced devices, incl. CTs. Even in Africa people know what the red WOŚP heart does mean. It means good cooperation for good.

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by OWOLUSI, 2025.01.06 - 22.15 WAT

From the heart of the European continent to Africa, Poland is breaking the boundaries that once separated the continents, by reaching out to Africa through the "Immersive Centrico" project and the Floor4Africa Programme (F4A). This this time we focus on building concrete floors in urban slum communities of Africa, where children are exposed to dirt floors and problems associated with staying in such an unhealthy environment at school. Everything started in Kenya in 2018, followed by Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria. Impressive success was recorded in all, and the local builders and community members continually appreciate the opportunity to be part of their communitie’s development in SDG4, SDG3, SDG8 prism.

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by ROMAN, 2024.12.13 - 11.00 CET

Two very essential anniversaries in Poland today. First, the anniversary of the Martial Law introduced by the communistic dictatorship in 1981. Today we also celebrate restoring of the democratic rules, after the general election that happened on 15th October 2023. It took two months to form the democratic coalition govt of Donald Tusk. It was implied by the fact that formerly ruling party got top result. But they were not able to take the power due to the lack of majority in both houses of the Polish parliament. They tried to attract others without final success. So, on 13th December 2023 democratic clock restarted in Poland. Today all members of the Polish democratic government, including people from the centrist party "Polska 2050" of the Speaker of the lower house of the parliament called "Sejm" - Hon. Szymon Hołownia, released a short footage summarizing one year of restoring democracy in this unique European Union country.

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by ROMAN, 2024.11.11 - 21.45 CET

11th November is the Polish Independence Day. This is how members of the centrist party "Polska 2050" celebrated it in Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. What people started to sing at 00:06 was the national anthem ("Mazurek Dabrowskiego") this European Union country had in 2024.

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by ROMAN, 2024.11.07 - 11.45 CET

Looks like Donald Trump is restarting the 2025 presidential election in Poland. The campaign has even not started yet. How is it possible? Poland is a leading US partner in the CEE region. We've got 2 leading parties here. They declared they can introduce their candidates for the President office only when they know final results of American elections. On one hand, Trump's win can make both of them let quite conservative candidates run now. Hardly anybody would be surprised with seeing Radoslaw Sikorski and Przemyslaw Czarnek as KO and PiS candidates. On the other hand, there's still a lot of open-minded space for the "Third Way" candidate - Szymon Holownia, to join this fluctuating competition. Speaker of the Polish parliament can be a very good, centrist alternative for the group of pro-democratic and pro-EU voters in Poland. Many people are quite fed up with constant polarisation happening in the Polish politics. So, it's not a 'mission impossible' at all to build a brand-new progressive strategy for him.

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by ROMAN, 2024.09.01 - 11.15 CET

Speaker of the lower chamber of the Polish parliament and the leader for the centrist party "Polska 2050" - Hon. Szymon Hołownia, said: "The lesson we ought to keep in our hearts, after all the misery of the 20th century, is the fact felons act only when heros do not." He took part in the celebration of the 85th anniversary of the WW2 that took place in the seashore City of Gdańsk, in northern Poland, in the early morning today. On the 1st September 1939 (04.45 CET), a German nazi warship attacked Polish military base Westerplatte located over there. It marks the beginning of the WW2 in the History of the World.

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by ROMAN, 2024.08.02 - 12.30 CET

Yesterday the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising was celebrated in Poland. On 1st August 1944 Poles started to fight German Nazi troops in Warsaw, the capital city of this country. Hitler's Germany held well-equipped army in entire Poland during the WW2. So, the challenge was not easy to succeed and - this way - it mobilised thousands of non-military people. One of them was Nigerian musician staying in Poland. To perform jazz music in Warsaw, Mr August Agbola O'Browne had come from Nigeria. He became probably the only black member of the Polish Resistance that time. 200k people were killed in Warsaw Uprising but not him. He survived, he married Polish lady and they moved to the UK. Many thanks for him to... Naija!

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