11.03.2013
C4C’s best year ever – for the 3rd consecutive time! Over 72 million CZK rendered in 2012, adding up to over half a billion CZK in direct aid rendered since inception!
We said it time and again, though crunching numbers is not the most favorite past-time of any of our highly motivated team members, everyone had to agree in the end – it was worth our time doing it (again). And, the results are well worth publishing!
“Adding up the direct aid rendered by C4C since its inception, the cumulative total has surpassed half a billion CZKs”, remarks Nadja Kreckova, C4C’s CFO for the better part of a decade. “That’s just incredible!”
“It’s been rewarding watching C4C grow from what amounted to not much more than a hobby of my personal family – intoone of the biggest Czech Non-Profits”, reflects Manfred Franke, C4C’s founder and chairman. He continues: “At times, though, folks tend to give me too much credit for all that has been accomplished. Honestly, I just got the ball rolling in the beginning. C4C’s success and impact has mainly been due its incredible team, our staff and volunteers – folks with amazingtalents, vision and enthusiasm for our cause: They and our dear sponsors are the real heroes here!”
So, with a sense of thankfulness and gratitude to all those who have helped C4C in its efforts to make this world a better place and the playing field a little more level for those less fortunate than others, here’s how C4C performed in 2012: (for simplicity’s sake, we’ll use the same matrix as in previous years, dividing things up between our three separate programs. Caution: depending on what web-browser is used, columns may not be perfectly aligned…):
SPRINGBOARD TO LIFE
The program provides orphaned and institutionalized children, once they reach teen age, with educational opportunities through extra-curricular vocational classes & courses – to help them in their quest to integrate into society and be successful in the job market. The program also offers socialization and integration events, like theater and musical evenings, bowling tournaments, etc. to open up new horizons for institutionalized children and help them adjust to life in society, after exiting their respective institutions, usually when they reach 18 years of age.
This year’s special events included the Musical “Cinderella on Ice”, and special performances for institutionalized children by C4C partner Original National Circus Berousek and many other special occasions.
Participating children: 950 (202 enrolled in courses)
Benefitting institutions: 21
Socialization/integration events: 7
CLASSES/COURSES OFFERED:
– Hairstyling
– Creative English
– Computer Sciences
– Household Sciences, Baking & Cooking
– Music Theory & Guitar
ROBIN HOOD:
The program targets the growth and well-being of children in need. Partnering with multinational corporations and local business, the initiative creates nurturing environments for institutionalized childrenwho live out their childhood and youth in usually chronically underfunded government and private institutions.
It is also one of the program’s aims to improve the quality of life of institutionalized children nationwide, by providing for them, amongst other things, fashionable apparel, shoes, etc., to boost their self-esteem and confidence and help them to be on equal footing with their peers in school.
Total Aid rendered in 2012: 72.441.072,- CZK
Benefitting institutions: 116
Children receiving direct aid: 3596
DR. CLOWN:
It’s a fact proven by serious and peer-reviewed scientific studies that laughter can be therapeutic and helpful during recovery from illness and injury. The Dr. Clown program focuses on providing comic relief to hospitalized children, helping them to on the path of recovery through Dr. Clown’s popular “Smile Therapy”! The team also aims to establish what we came to term a 24/7 Dr. Clown presence in participating hospitals: distributing Dr. Clown coloring books, installing Dr. Clown Corners, Computer Stations, Floor Games and training nurses as Dr. Clown “Agents”. During these seminars and workshops nurses learn, amongst other skills, magic tricks, balloon sculpturing and the importance of light humor in their interaction with children.
“Besides our normal clown visits, special emphasis continues to be give to C4C’s recently established cooperation with the LEGO company and consequently the LEGO foundation“, says Rafal Wojas, C4C co-founder and director of the DR. Clown program. “Their more than generous contribution and commitment has enabled us to just about supply every hospital with children’s wards in the country with LEGO toys.” The LEGO company has so far donated more than 6 million CZK worth of Lego toys to the Dr. Clown initiative.
Clown team visits to hospitals & pediatric wards: 1344
Patients receiving “Smile Therapy”: 15.321
Dr. Clown Coloring Books distributed: 7.500
Hospitals hosting Dr. Clown Floor Games & Dr. Clown corners: 9
Balloon animals made: 51.000
Faces painted: 11.200
Dr. Clown training seminars: 10
Jokes told: 18.200
LEGO small sets distributed: 36.800
LEGO large sets distributed: 5.511
LEGO Charity (playroom) sets distributed: 247
Songs sung: 14.000
Travelled: 25.000 km
SPECIFICS:
For those of you who are at this point still with us and are interested in a more detailed view of things, especially concerning the Springboard to Life (STL) program, here goes:
PROGRAM: PARTICIPATING STUDENTS:
Hair styling & cutting: 14
Computer Science: 39
Baking and Cooking, Household Sciences: 52
Music Theory and Guitar: 50
Creative English: 51
Total: 202
Cost per child, per month of teaching: 266,-
ORPHANAGES BENEFITTING FROM THE STL PROGRAMS:
Dětský domov Sázava
Dětský domov Racek
Dětský domov Pyšely
Dětský domov Žatec
Dětský domov Ledce
Dětský domov Dolní Počernice
Dětský domov Nové Strašecí
Dětský domov Plzeň
Dětský domov Písek
ZŠ Žilina
Klokánek Hostivice
Dětský domov Klánovice
Dětský domov Kralupy nad Vltavou
PROGRAM – Creative English
Dětský domov Žatec
Dětský domov Sázava
Dětský domov Racek
Dětský domov Písek
Dětský domov Kralupy nad Vltavou
Dětský domov Klánovice
PROGRAM – Music Theory and Guitar
Dětský domov Pyšely
Dětský domov Sázava
Dětský domov Nové Strašecí
Dětský domov Ledce
PROGRAM – Baking and Cooking, Household Sciences
Klokánek Hostivice
Dětský domov Ledce
Dětský domov Žatec
Dětský domov Nové Strašecí
ZS Žilina
PROGRAM – Hair styling
Dětský domov Pyšely
Dětský domov Sázava
Dětský domov Nové strašecí
Dětský domov Ledce
Dětský domov Dolní Počernice
PROGRAM – Computer Sciences
Dětský domov Žatec
Dětský domov Písek
Dětský domov Plzeň
Dětský domov Kralupy nad Vltavou
ORPHANAGES BENEFITTING FROM THE STL Socialization and integration events 2012:
Number of children participating in socialization and integration events: 749
National Circus Berousek – 324
Musical Cinderella on Ice – 300
Baking in Clarion
DD Ledce
DD Žatec
DD Nové Strašecí
Camp fire in Ledce with Kladno Knights Team
DD Ledce
DD Nové Strašecí
DD Unhošť
Cooking classes in Shock Restaurant, Kladno
DD Nové Strašecí
DD Ledce
Pazderna ranch: Rotary Club Bohemia invites STL
participants a day of food and fun to a horse ranch
DD Žatec
DD Sázava
Science is fun, L’Oreal CR
DD Ledce
TOTAL, participating children 125
Sundry stats:
Hours of teaching/prep/travel time: – 2.968 hours
Total km travelled: – 16.343 km
Cirkus Berousek Special Performances
Hostivice………………….46 tickets
Počernice……………….. 77
Klánovice………………..23
Litoměřice……………….9
Nouzov……………………43
Praha 2…………………..22
Racek……………………..18
Unhošt…………………..28
Žatec……………………..45
foreigners…………………….13
TOTAL………………..324 tickets
