After baccalaureate she started studies in the Music Conservatory of Lwów, when she discovered talents in poetry and sculpture.

She was also an instructor of physical education in Sokół, and a member of the Eleusis organization [pl], where she met Andrzej Małkowski.

In the summer of 1914, just before the start of World War I, her health having recovered, Drahonowska-Małkowska organised the first national Scout camp.

Girls (by now renamed Guides) who originated from the Russian and German-controlled areas of Poland came to the camp under assumed names and false passports.

One morning a detachment of the Secret Military Police (some of whom were brothers to the Guides) came to announce that war had been declared.

The Małkowski's were asked by the Mayor of Zakopane to organise the night watch for the town because there was insufficient police and older people were too scared.

Before he left, he organised a cottage for his wife and the boys and girls who had no homes, and she opened a café to earn her living.

They took on a huge number of tasks including supplementing the postal service, organising a children's home, helping with the harvest, and setting up a hospital.

Their son Lutyk, was born in the USA on 30 October 1915, and after that returned to Switzerland in 1916, where she worked as a teacher and custodian of the Polish museum.

[citation needed] Between 1948-60 Małkowska was leading the Polish Children's Home in Hawson Court in Buckfastleigh, Devon.