“Socially Excluded Education Association “Busola” is a relatively young body that was brought into existence in March 2016. It is an institution that focuses people working for the sake of adult prisoners. These prisoners are students of prison schools. The main reason why the association was established is the will to run educational, cultural, sporting and training activities for the sake of the prison school students and their educators. Majority of members of the association are active educators working in the field of prison education, directly involved in the social rehabilitation process – these are either prison school teachers or school management team members. These people have a several years long practice in working with prisoners. The target group in our case are prisoners serving time in Plock prison. The population in the penal unit is about 600. Obviously, not everyone would be able to take part in the project and not everyone would be eligible, but since we are in good terms with the prison school and the section for inmates with mental disorders, it would not be difficult to reach out to the target group and organize a group(s) which would be able to take part in the project. So, the main channel of reaching the target group would be to cooperate with:

1. The head of the prison – without his knowledge and approval it is impossible to introduce anything, and in the case of the SOCVOC project additional educational activities.
2. The head of the prison school – thanks to the school it would be easier to find interested inmates + there are classrooms which could be used for the sake of the activities. This task should not be difficult due to the fact that the head of the prison school and the chair of the Busola association is the same person.
3. The head of the mentally ill inmates’ section. This particular group would be a very good target lot because this is basically the most neglected group in the whole prison with very few to zero additional educational schemes. If talking about potential impact, obviously the biggest impact would be on the target group itself – opportunity for them to be the part of something that never before had they had a chance to take part in. So, potentially, we may have about 600 possible participants, however we will limit this number to a few dozens to watch the process closely and to be able to control all activities.

If it comes to the number of the staff of our organization, it comprises of about 23 members, out of which 12-15 are really active ones. Some of them are members that do not work or live in the town where the HQ of the association is, so naturally about 8-10 will be actively involved in the project idea. All of the members work/act as volunteers so none staff member is a paid one.