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Barbara Sadowska is a social entrepreneur and psychologist with training in non-profit organizations (Prague) and socio-educational program (Copenhagen), among others. In 1989 together with family she started to create self-sufficient communities (Barka Foundation); in 1998 established the Barka-Kofoed School, which functions as a "popular university” within lifelong learning system and mutual-help process. She is launching a national network of schools for the homeless and long-term unemployed. As responsible for international contacts she became an excellent “ambassador” of educational programs aimed at human development, introducing new solutions, establishing a wide net of partners and collaborators and transferring Barka’s programs of fight against extreme poverty to other countries. Barbara participates in the most important European conferences on invitation of the European Commission, Danish Ministry of Social Affairs, European Social Platform, EAPN, ISSAN, FEANTSA, EFC, HIC, etc. and organizes conferences on poverty issues in Poland with participation of authorities and foreign organizations.
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