Łukasz had an extraordinary gift for bringing people together. He could tell one person’s story in such a way that moments later thousands of others were helping them. Someone donated a few złoty, someone shared a post with friends, someone else decided to get involved in person — and often within just a few hours we managed to do something for which there had previously been a lack of money, time or simply hope.
Out of all those people who answered Łukasz’s appeals over the years, #TeamLitewka was born. A community thanks to which many stories turned out completely differently.
Jagoda was just 22 years old when she had to fight a brain tumour. Thanks to the involvement of thousands of people, over 900,000 złoty was raised for her treatment. Łukasz informed his followers about the completion of this fundraiser the day before his tragic death.
Łucja lives with osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease) and has needed specialist treatment and rehabilitation from a very young age. In early 2026, thanks to Łukasz’s appeal, over 200,000 złoty was raised for her further treatment. Today we are still with Łucja and keep sharing updates on the next stages of her fight for health.
Lots of people followed Tadzio’s story. The boy needed specialist heart surgery in Geneva, and thanks to the commitment of donors, 515,000 złoty was raised.
Fifteen-year-old Szymon and his mum found themselves in a difficult housing situation. When Łukasz told his followers about them, people started helping and together raised over 700,000 złoty to support the family.
Three-year-old Emilka has neuroblastoma. Together with her mum she sold soaps for 15 złoty at the market in Września to raise money for urgent treatment in the USA. Łukasz shared her story with the #Team and asked people to buy a virtual soap — the entire 1.8 million złoty was raised in 12 hours.
Tymek was just 6 months old when his parents heard the diagnosis: Duchenne muscular dystrophy. When we shared his story, something happened that nobody expected — in 3.5 hours, 1.5 million złoty was raised.
He was 30 years old when he had to face a brain tumour. He needed another costly operation that he could not afford. Łukasz told his story and in just a few hours over 100,000 złoty was raised, allowing Dariusz to undergo treatment.
We met Mr Jerzy almost by chance — a man who had devoted his life to rescuing hedgehogs and ran a sanctuary for them in Kłodzko. When the flood came, the hedgehogs were evacuated, but the water flooded the grounds and destroyed the enclosures. Together with you, we raised PLN 371,843 for him and his hedgehogs.
Zwierzogranie is a big, nationwide charity orchestra for animals. It was created to help fight animal homelessness and to support spaying, neutering and microchipping, but also to speak up for animal rights and for how we should look after animals.
When Lower Silesia was dealing with the aftermath of the flood, we started finding out where help was needed most and what was needed.
Together with IGLOO, we donated three large heat pumps with drying modules to facilities in Głuchołazy, Łomnica and Gryfów Śląski.
We also helped the family of a seriously ill little girl. They needed a power generator that could run her medical equipment. It reached them at 12:47 a.m. on the dot.
Bitter frost was forecast in Kraków, and more than a hundred animals were waiting in the shelter. Łukasz wrote to people with one request:
“These are going to be very hard nights. Are there any good hearts out there who will visit the shelter and take a dog home for the night, leave it with grandma overnight, or maybe they’re on a night shift and their boss loves dogs?”
The response went beyond our wildest expectations. A queue of people formed outside the shelter, all wanting to take the animals into foster homes or adopt them for good.
In the end, more than 100 animals left the shelter before the frost arrived. Some stayed in their new homes for good, others got a safe place for the coldest days.
Katarzyna Węsierska from the University of Silesia has worked with people who stutter for years. Outside her job she also helps others, and she is the one who organised the first camp in Poland for children and teenagers who stutter.
For many of them, an ordinary conversation, a first date or applying for a job comes with huge stress. At the camp they get to see that stuttering is nothing to be ashamed of, and gain a little more self-confidence.
To run the next camp, PLN 27,000 was missing for food, transport and accommodation for the participants. Łukasz promised Kasia that the camp would go ahead, and the #TeamLitewka Foundation donated PLN 15,000 towards it.
Sławek Wiking and nearly 2,000 employees of Kuchnia Vikinga from all over Poland came up with the idea of doing something that might one day save someone’s life. They bought 10 defibrillators together with their cabinets and wanted to install them in the busiest places in Poland.
That’s when they wrote to Łukasz:
“We believe they’ll never have to be used, but we want this country to be a safer place. Come and do it with us!”
A defibrillator can help in a sudden cardiac arrest even before the ambulance arrives. That’s why we joined in. Krupówki, Gdańsk’s Old Town, or maybe near Wawel? The idea was to put the devices where thousands of people pass by every day.
This time there was no need to raise money. All it took was gloves, bin bags and people who were bothered by what others had left behind.
Together with local residents, we set about cleaning up the canal of the Pogoria reservoir. A few hours of work, and a place we all know simply looked a bit better.
There are many more such stories, and it is impossible to tell them all in one place. Behind each of them stand people who decided to help someone they often didn’t even know.
Today Łukasz is no longer with us, but the community he created still exists. We want to continue his work, help people and animals, and show you new stories in which we can change something together.
When we think about helping animal shelters and animal care organizations, bags of food, blankets and other basic necessities usually come to mind first. Yet daily care for animals also means washing bedding, cleaning kennels and making sure they have a warm, safe place. That is why sometimes what is needed most is an ordinary washing machine, a pressure washer, a few insulated kennels or something we would never have thought of ourselves.
And that is why, instead of guessing, we decided to ask the people who care for animals every day what they truly lack, and then try to help them get it together with you. That is how Zwierzopaczka was born — our new nationwide campaign in which everyone can find a place for themselves.
You know best what the animals in your care need. Using a dedicated form, you can indicate one concrete need that will make your daily work easier. We will verify your submission and, once accepted, show it on the Zwierzopaczka website so others can see how they can help you.
You do not have to be a large company or a formal organization to do something good. You can gather friends, family, neighbors, coworkers or schoolmates and choose a facility you want to help together. Your task will be to raise money for a specific purchase, while we handle the organization and invite you to hand over the aid so you can see for yourselves what we achieved together.
Unable to start your own group? No problem! You can support the fundraiser of a chosen team or donate any amount to the main Zwierzopaczka fundraiser. Thanks to such donations we will be able, among other things, to top up missing amounts and help more shelters.
How do we teach children empathy, responsibility and love for animals? Best through stories that stay with them for longer. That is why “AdoPsiak Biszkopt” was created — a book about Helenka and the dog adopted by her family, which introduces the youngest readers to adoption and caring for a four-legged friend in an accessible way.
Get to know their story! The book is also available as a free ebook and audiobook.
We help those who can’t ask for help themselves.
Zwierzogranie is Łukasz Litewka’s own project. He created it as a big, nationwide campaign of the #TeamLitewka Foundation, inspired by the idea of the Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy (the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, Poland’s biggest charity).
The idea was simple: bring together, around a single day, people who really care about animals, and do something concrete for them together.
Thanks to the #TeamLitewka community and the foundation’s work all over Poland, Zwierzogranie had a chance from the very start to become something much bigger than a one-off event. That’s why we often simply called it “a WOŚP for animals”.
The first Zwierzogranie took place on 18 May 2025 in Sosnowiec.
More than 10,000 people came, and another 100,000 followed the event online.
It was the first real test of an idea that, only shortly before, had existed mostly in Łukasz’s head. That day showed that there really are a great many people who want to do something good for animals.
“I was never angry at the animal world, but at the human world. I felt that every time I saw a dog on a rusty chain, or a ‘family member’ who, instead of going on holiday in summer, got thrown out of a car window like rubbish nobody wanted.
I dream, and I’m not afraid to dream, of a world that will look completely different. But that world takes a huge amount of work from all of us, from the very beginning, from the ground up.
Through ZWIERZOGRANIE we want to take on, among other things, an educational mission on animal rights, and also the fight against animal homelessness in Poland. Together we can do it.”
— Łukasz Litewka
We want Zwierzogranie to help animals not just during a single event. That’s why, from the start, we have focused on a few things:
This is what the first Zwierzogranie looked like.
In the world of Zwierzogranie, every animal has its own story. Some have lost their home, others are still waiting for one. Your job is to find them, feed them, give them water, build a safe shelter and do everything you can so that in the end they go to someone who will take care of them.
If you like games such as The Sims or Tamagotchi, there’s a good chance you’ll love Zwierzogranie from the very first moment!
So what do you say? Shall we rescue some pups together?
The Zwierzogranie game was made possible by funds raised during the 1st edition of ZWIERZOGRANIE, the Nationwide Orchestra for Animals organised by the #TeamLitewka Foundation.
Łukasz was connected with Sosnowiec all his life. He started out in dirty Nikes, painting benches on his estate and doing things he simply thought needed doing. Over time the scale, the possibilities and the number of people around him changed, but he himself never stopped being that lad from the estate who, instead of just talking about a problem, preferred to try and solve it.
Over all those years you could see him in all kinds of situations. One day he was carrying a washing machine into someone’s flat, another he was loading pet food for a shelter into his car, or telling the story of someone hardly anyone had noticed before. Even when he became a member of parliament, he showed that a politician can simply be a person who helps.
On 23 April 2026 he was tragically killed in an accident. He was 36. Today we miss his energy, his next ideas and that trademark “I’ll just leave this here”, after which something good very often started to happen.
“I’ll just leave this here”
What began with painting benches grew, over a dozen or so years, into a social phenomenon. A community approaching hundreds of thousands of people from all over Poland gathered around Łukasz. #TeamLitewka isn’t one person, it’s everyone who has answered his call even once. Łukasz is no longer with us today, but #TeamLitewka has stayed. And we want to keep doing what he taught us over the years: not to walk past people and animals we can help.
When he became the youngest city councillor in Sosnowiec in 2014, politics didn’t change the way he worked. Four years later, residents re-elected him, and in 2023 he ran for the Sejm from the very last place on the Left’s list in the Katowice constituency.
40,579 votesHe won 40,579 votes and became a member of the Polish Sejm.
Even then he did a lot of things his own way. Instead of yet more photos of a politician, his election posters showed dogs waiting for adoption. Because for Łukasz, even an election campaign could be a chance to help someone.
From the very beginning, Łukasz wanted Zwierzogranie to be a big, nationwide campaign that helps animals, supports the fight against homelessness and at the same time teaches people how to care for them wisely.
The first edition took place on 18 May 2025 in Sosnowiec and brought together thousands of people who care about the fate of animals. Soon afterwards Łukasz was already thinking about the next one. Zwierzogranie was one of the most important projects he started, and it remains one of our foundation’s most important activities.
A message from the FoundationIf you were with us at the first edition of Zwierzogranie, first of all we want to thank you. It was thanks to you that the first edition showed how many people want to do something good for animals together.
After the first edition, Łukasz was already thinking about the next one. He wanted Zwierzogranie to grow, reach more places and help even more animals with every edition.
Zwierzogranie is here to stay. We will keep developing everything Łukasz started.
— #TeamLitewkaIf you would like to support our work, you can make a donation directly to the foundation’s bank account. Every contribution, regardless of the amount, matters to us.
If you need help, have a question or simply want to get in touch, drop us a line. We’ll be happy to reply.
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