For more news and videos visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com<br />Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision<br />Add us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevision<br /> Add us on Facebook ☛http://me.lt/9P8MUn<br /><br />The Polish President makes a surprise appearance at Poland's biggest NGO event, the week-long Non-Governmental Initiative Forum in Warsaw. The event promotes civil involvement and citizen initiatives, hallmark features of healthy democracies. Our correspondent brings us the story.<br /><br />And in Warsaw Saturday, non-government organisations, or NGO's, team up with business and government from across Poland to wrap up a week of promoting civil involvement and citizen initiatives.<br /><br />Even the President of Poland and the First Lady have come out to throw their weight behind the 6th Polish Non-Governmental Initiative Forum.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />[Martyna Obarska, Organizer, Polish Non-Government Initiative Forum]:<br />"This is the sixth time now that we've held the Polish Non-governmental Initiative Forum and it's basically a celebration of the Third Sector that takes place once every three years. A bit less officially, it's a place where we can all meet in one place and talk about important issues. We have a two-day conference attended by about one thousand delegates. And then there's one day devoted to all of us - but also to Warsaw residents - called the NGO Picnic. We hit the streets and Warsaw starts to feel in the NGO spirit."<br /><br />According to one panelist the discussions at the 2-day conference that are part of the Forum focused on all manner of pressing issues facing civil society today.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />For many organisations, like this microfinance network with operations in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, the NGO picnic is a way to integrate its efforts with other NGOs.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />A vibrant civil society, or Third Sector as it's also called, is said by organisations like the United Nations to be one of the hallmarks of a healthy democracy.<br /><br />NTD News, Warsaw, Poland
