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When visits are banned, how can we still reach out to children and the elderly in their institutions?

08.05.2020

Fact is, these days residents of seniors homes and orphanages can’t receive visitors and, to top things off, children in children’s homes can only go out in a limited and organized way. We already reported on the online channel and videos we created for our children here. But what could be done, so that

01.05.2020

On the 17th of April, one month has passed since the launch of the C4C channel on YouTube, which we set up so that we could at least electronically connect with children in orphanages and hospitals to which we have lost access. With our teacher Pavel Justich children or seniors can sing along to

20.04.2020

When this all started, I never realized, how many sectors were going to be touched by the quarantine and restrictions. Not only schools – which seemed as an unexpected additional holiday welcomed by most of the students and even by me as a mother and a big fan of homeschooling– but also businesses, theatres,

16.04.2020

To say that we’re living through strange times seems almost like an understatement. More aptly, times actually border on dystopia and none of us knows if things will really ever go back to what we considered “normal” before. Uncertainty and insecurity abounds, a large part of the populace is fearful and distraught about the

27.03.2020

Dear Friends and Supporters of Chance 4 Children! Greetings from our homes! We all now live in a bit of an unusual reality and in unprecedented times. We strive to be flexible and are setting new records: how to entertain and teach our kids at home instead of school – while still continuing our

13.03.2020

In line with government directives on preventing the spread of the Corona Virus, as of Thursday the 12th of March 2020, Chance 4 Children has suspended all Dr. Clown and Springboard to Life visits to hospitals and orphanages, respectively. This is a temporary measure and we sincerely hope that we can soon resume our

15.02.2020

For years now I have been claiming, that for parents of schoolchildren Christmas is not the most hectic season, but the approaching first school day, and that it is not New Year’s Eve midnight that deserves fanfares, toasts and fireworks, but the last day of September, when we (parents or guardians) celebrate the marathon

03.02.2020

Looking back – what can be said about Dr. Clown and its laughter therapy in 2019? All of us at Dr. Clown feel privileged, grateful and appreciative for being able to be one of the sources of laughter and joy in this world. Leafing through the pictures of happily smiling children, old folks, medical

23.01.2020

C4C’s Hand in Hand initiative, launched in 2017, is developing delicately and on track: The intergenerational meetings within the framework of the Hand in Hand initiative, have continued to grow successfully in 2019. The aim of the initiative is to bring together elderly residents of assisted care facilities with children from orphanages to explore

18.01.2020

It’s been 22 years since C4C’s Springboard to Life program had its inception in 1998. Since then our educational initiative helped prepare thousands of children from orphanages and children’s homes to leave their foster environment and transition successfully into society and find to a job. This is mainly thanks to our special teachers, mentors

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Hand In Hand initiative in 2019

Springboard to Life in 2019