About the Foundation

Warsaw Volunteer Mission is a non-profit charity, registered under Polish law. The mission has been active since May 1995 under the leadership of Michael and Anette Murphy, who are lay missionaries. It has a combined Polish and international staff whose diverse backgrounds and traditions reflect the unified concept of Christianity upon which it is based.

Our purpose

Our purpose is to provide material, emotional, and spiritual help to those in need. Currently our main assistance is directed toward:

• "Families in Crisis" - Indigent families, whose members struggle with traumatic circumstances such as terminally ill children, bereavement, etc.

•  "Life Impact" - Individuals who are incarcerated in prisons or reformatories, as well as those already released and readjusting to society. 

• "Seeker's Haven" - Youth and Young at Heart, particularly those who are searching for meaning and purpose.

Present objectives and methods

Besides helping individuals and families, we also support many needy institutions, such as orphanages, hospitals, and correctional facilities, as well as the Warsaw Hospice for Children. 

Much emphasis is placed on donating financially and materially to the poorest families in the Warsaw area with terminally ill children, as well as bereaved families with similar circumstances. Another priority is individual rehabilitation via counseling and Bible instruction in correctional facilities and prisons.

"WVM effectively supports poor families from the hospice with donations, social support and whatever is necessary."  (Dr. Tomasz Dangel, Chairman of the board of trustees, Warsaw Hospice for Children.)

"WVM supports our program through the inmates' spiritual development, and by donating needed educational materials." (Ewa Chmurska, Director, "Atlantis" Rehabilitation Department, Rakowiecka Prison, Warsaw.)

These efforts have yielded wonderful results, both in the drastically changed lives of prison inmates, as well as in the help, comfort and encouragement received by struggling families with children who are Hospice patients.