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We are building a Polish community at the heart of the European Union.
2020-2026.
What is Help Centre Belgium?
Who are Sztabki?
We were founded during the pandemic in 2020 as a group of friends providing support across Belgium. As early as 16 June of the same year, we formalised our activities by establishing the organisation Help Centre Belgium a.s.b.l – Sztab Pomocy Belgia.
Today, we are a large humanitarian organisation operating in crisis situations and filling gaps in the system of immediate assistance.
On 17 March 2024, we underwent a rebranding process and now operate under the name Sztabki, while retaining our original names for humanitarian actions.
As a modern association, we carry out a wide range of initiatives that support the development and integration of the Polish community in Belgium. We create space for the growth of volunteerism within our European volunteer centre, strengthening social, civic and solidarity-based competencies.
Since our inception, we have also been the creators and organisers of the Polish Day in Brussels project (editions 2022–2027) — one of the largest events promoting Poland, Polish culture and civic engagement at the heart of Europe.
If you would like to support our work, we invite you to visit the “Support Sztabki 2026” section.
We operate without public funding.
Our strength lies in people, solidarity and the trust of the community we build.
What do we do?
Sztabki is a humanitarian organisation that activates its support wherever it is most needed — in crisis situations such as pandemics, lockdowns, floods or war. We act quickly and effectively, stepping in where systemic assistance does not always reach in time.
At the same time, we deliver long-term social and cultural projects that present Poland and Poles in a modern, European context — both locally and internationally. We create initiatives with wide reach and tangible social impact, including:
Polish Day in Brussels, Centrum Wszechświata, MiMo Wszystko Kultura, Wiadomo.be, as well as the Polish Library in Belgium, developed in cooperation with Help Brigade a.s.b.l..
By combining humanitarian aid with culture, education and media, we build a strong, active and open Polish community in Belgium — in constant dialogue with the local and European environment.
We have filled the space of our organisation’s headquarters with books as part of the Polish Library in Belgium project, developed in cooperation with Help Brigade a.s.b.l..
The library comprises a collection of over 15,000 books in the Polish language, making it one of the largest and most accessible centres of Polish readership in Belgium — open to the Polish community, volunteers and all those interested in Polish culture and literature.
We are a modern online media platform, operating our own television studio located at our Centrum Wszechświata centre. We create and produce original video content, news programmes and editorial formats, combining professional production standards with socially and civically relevant topics.
We serve as the communication and information backbone of the Polish Day in Brussels event, responsible for the media narrative, coverage and international outreach of the project. In 2025, our activities are carried out in cooperation with the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU, strengthening the visibility of Polish initiatives in the European public sphere.
By connecting media, culture and European dialogue, we are shaping a new quality of communication for the Polish community in Belgium and across Europe.
Culture — and in particular its creative promotion — is one of the pillars of our activities at Centrum Wszechświata. It is a space designed for author meetings, intimate concerts, film screenings and artistic events that encourage dialogue and the shared experience of culture.
In 2025, our project was an integral part of Polish Day in Brussels — the largest edition in the history of the event, presenting Polish culture in a modern, European context.
This is our place on Earth — the home of the Sztab Pomocy Belgia – Sztabki volunteer community. A space designed with people, action and community in mind.
The building is multifunctional: it brings together an internet television studio, the organisation’s office, a library and — above all — a central hall dedicated to volunteer meetings and activities. It is here that ideas, initiatives and projects with real social impact are born.
At the end of 2025, the facility underwent another transformation, becoming the only centre of its kind for the promotion of Poland in Brussels — a place that brings together volunteerism, culture, media and European dialogue within one coherent space.
How was the Help Centre Belgium formed?
Our organisation was founded on March 18, 2020 at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown in Belgium. As a group of friends, we started helping in Belgium providing assistance to those in need and the homeless. Since then, we have built a tremendous community of volunteers in Belgium.
Today, we are a Belgian non-governmental organisation operating in various fields: humanitarian, cultural, educational and media-related. And most importantly, in the field of integration between Poles and Belgians, as well as within the Polish community in Belgium.
Get to know our history.
