By Izabela Muczynska

Christmas is meant to be a happy and exciting day for everybody. We usually celebrate it with our loved ones, enjoying the lovely time when the whole family have been finally put together. Unfortunately, not everybody can be as lucky as we are. There are many families, who can not provide a proper Christmas for their children. Simply due to the lack of money.

‘The Noble Package’ is a very famous project in Poland. Every year, around Christmas time, people prepare a parcel for one family that they have chosen. It became a really popular thing amongst athletes as well. The Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski, takes part in this project every year.

Lewandowski says “Helping with this project has become something normal for us, we do it every year. I hope, that those receiving gifts will be the beginning of a new, better life. I believe that ‘The Noble Package’ project is an act of kindness that will be spread all over the world. I am extremely happy that we can be involved in this.”

Polish National Team became the first group of donors in the 16^th edition of ‘The Noble Package’, this is how footballers want to inspire other Polish people to help families living in poverty. This year they prepared their parcel for a single woman, who is raising three kids on her own. Amongst the gifts they could receive items that are really needed, such as food, clothes or cleaning supplies.

One of her sons was dreaming about a scarf saying POLAND. Footballers made his dream come true and gave him a scarf with signatures of the whole Polish squad. Also, they have decided to put an additional gift in the parcel, a medal. Players wanted to show the family respect and tell the mother of three that they really appreciated her courage. Although the situation is very hard, she does not give up and she is fighting for a better future for her and her children.

Grzegorz Krychowiak tried to wind everybody up recently. He did very well to be honest! I believed this myself. What is the story? Krychowiak, Paris Saint-Germain’s midfielder has posted a photo with his girlfriend a couple of days ago. In the description he was asking his fans to give them three female and three male names to help them.

Fans and the media thought that his girlfriend Celia Jaunat is expecting a baby, so they started to congratulate the young couple. The footballer explained everything a few days later, he wanted his fans to pick names, so he can choose two kids to get help from him and his girlfriend. People could not complain, Krychowiak’s intentions were good and nobody blames him for this little misunderstanding. How could we? That was actually a very good trick, he was trying to make everybody pay attention to this project.

It is great that those guys are trying to make something good for other people and they are using their fame as a tool in spreading kindness. Thanks to their actions more people will be spending this Christmas with their faith in humanity back.