Workshop with Paulina Piórkowska and Sanjar Hashimi and organised by Czas Kultury.
The Workshop is in the past. Thanks to everyone attending and the facilitators! On this page we publish some of the materials and sparks from the Workshop.
About the Workshop
We had the pleasure of learning from two inspiring facilitators: Paulina Piórkowska and Sanjar Hoshimi.
Paulina Piórkowska is a street outreach worker and board member of the Kuchnia Konfliktu Foundation, a Warsaw-based organization that supports people on the move through humanitarian aid, integration programs, and educational initiatives. Her presentation focused on the sociopolitical context of migration in Poland, the evolving role of NGOs in supporting migrants, and the everyday challenges faced by people on the move.
Sanjar Hoshimi, a refugee from Tajikistan, is an IT mentor, educator, and digital marketing specialist. He is the founder of CodeYourPath and Digiteria—initiatives that empower migrants and refugees through technology education and digital skills. Sanjar shared his personal journey, including the difficulties he and his wife Sitora experienced during their relocation, and emphasized the importance of solidarity and equitable support for people on the move.
Together, their contributions offered a grounded perspective on migration, highlighting both structural barriers and the agency of individuals navigating them.
Aha-moments and further reads
- Working with people on the move without proper preparation—such as psychological support, supervision, a solid organizational structure, and clearly defined boundaries—leads to rapid burnout.
- Even the smallest moments of self-determination are important for people on the move. The ability to take care of their living space—like cleaning their room or planting a flower of their choice in the garden—can be empowering.
- Focusing on providing people on the move with a range of conveniences, rather than actively supporting them in navigating their new reality independently, is a misguided approach.
- The ways of working with people on the move rely heavily on sociopolitical context of the country.
The Crisis Caravan: What’s Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? by Linda Polman (2012)
Presentation Inputs
The facilitators’ presentations can be opened by a click on the link. Please do only use the material for non-commercial purpose, naming the source.
Paulina Piórkowska
With a click on the following link you can open the presenation pdf of Paulina Piórkowska. So far it is in Polish only: https://skills4crisis.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/PaulinaPiorkowska_SolidarnoscZludzmiWdrodze_Prezentacja.pdf
Sanjar Hoshimi
With a click on the following link you can open the presenation pdf of Sanjar Hoshimi. So far it is in Polish only: https://skills4crisis.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Zrozumiec-droge.pdf
Speakers / Workshop Facilitators
Paulina Piórkowska
Member of the board of the Kuchnia Konfliktu Foundation, a Warsaw-based organization supporting people with migration and refugee experience through aid, integration and educational activities.
A graduate of the University of Arts in Poznań, with many years of experience working with people with migration and refugee experience and particularly vulnerable groups. She specializes in work at the intersection of art, activism, grassroots activities and humanitarian aid, with a strong emphasis on strengthening the subjectivity and agency of people with refugee and migration experience.
She has worked as a streetworker, cultural animator, Roma education assistant and coordinator of social projects – including in the Social Animation Group “Rezerwat” [Grupa Animacji Społecznej „Rezerwat”], the Towards Dialogue Foundation [Fundacji w Stronę Dialogu] and Primary School No. 26 in Poznań. Since 2019, she has been involved in activities for the Roma communities – both migrants from Romania and refugees from Ukraine after 2022.
Sanjar Hoshimi
Refugee from Tajikistan, IT mentor, educator, digital marketing specialist and founder of two initiatives: CodeYourPath, supporting people with migration experience in acquiring digital skills and working in the technology industry, and Digiteria – a marketing agency created by migrants and refugees. A journalist by education, he has been working at the intersection of education, integration and new technologies for years, conducting workshops, training and projects for refugee communities and organizations supporting diversity. Thanks to his own refugee experience and everyday work with people from different cultures and backgrounds, he perfectly understands how important effective, empathetic and needing partnership communication is. He conducts workshops on marketing and programming for people with migration experience, as well as training for NGOs and companies in the field of intercultural and integration work.
