Markot

Markot (Ruch Wychodzenia z Bezdomnosci - Movement Out of Homelessness) is a Polish social movement, aimed at helping homeless people across Poland.

It was founded by Marek Kotanski, a charity worker and campaigner on behalf of disadvantaged people and was based on an idea from late 1980s and early 1990s.

First center of the movement was opened in a village of Lutynka, another one was opened in Jeleni Ruczaj, then a School of Life was founded in the village of Wandzin.

The movement was legalized in 1994, in the same year in Warsaw, a Center of Help was opened.

It is estimated that in the 1990s, some 50% of beds for Polish homeless persons were administered by Markot.