Two members of Kosciuszko Heritage have taken part in the annual Polish Community Council of Australia convention.
Dr. Ernestyna Skurjat-Kozek, the President of Kosciszko Heritage, and Prof. Andrzej Kozek, a committee member, attended the meeting, held in Canberra, on June 7.
Ernestyna presented the activities of the organisation and discussed a plan to submit materials about Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki for publication in the project Heroes of the Great Irish Famine sponsored by the Ministry of Arts in Ireland. Strzelecki developed a system for supplying food and clothing for Ireland’s children through schools and, as a result, more than 200,000 children of different religious backgrounds received daily meals and clothing during the most difficult periods of the famine.
Andrzej noted that the Polish community in Australia has an obligation to take care of Polish heritage in Australia, in the broad sense of that term, and, above all, to look after the legacy of Kosciuszko and Strzelecki.
The convention was attended by 32 delegates, who represented 17 member organizations.
A full report (in Polish) about the entire convention, written by Ita Szymańska and published on Puls Polonii, can be found here.
Dr Ernestyna Skurjat-Kozek 
The delegates of the convention