Dr. Clown – laughter therapy at work

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

Hand In Hand initiative in 2019

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

Springboard to Life in 2019

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

Our Robin Hood project in 2019

15.01.2020
We’re happy to report that C4C’s Robin Hood project had a successful 2019 and managed to distribute direct aid totaling 1.418.400 CZK to children’s homes and other facilities helping socially disadvantaged children. We are especially thankful for our longtime, international partners, the HH Foundation and multinational apparel giant VANS for their generous donations of new

The book “Pohádky k dočmárání” was published!

03.01.2020
  It was on St Nicholas day, on December 5th, 2019, that an unconventional book written by C4C team member Martina Pupcsiková entitled “Pohádky k dočmárání” (Draw a Fairy Tale) was published. The stories you find in it were originally written just for the enjoyment of her two daughters – without the intention of being

Skoda Tukas & C4C: making a difference together

01.11.2019
    This year, Skoda Tukas and C4C teamed up to make a difference in the lives of children at risk and in need. Meet C4C’s new Skoda Octavia, kindly donated to the C4C team by Skoda Tukas . To successfully operate a non-profit like C4C, the need for dependable transportation just about tops the list

Chance 4 Children and Dog Stars in Vestec near Prague

12.10.2019
  On Sunday 22.9.2019, in Vestec near Prague, dog lovers gathered for the third time for a unique event named Dog Stars. The event is organized by our colleague, Martina Pupcsiková – the painter, writer and adoptive mother of two kind of crazy bitches, who she could not leave either in the gutter by the

The Dr. Clown team at “Days of the City of Kladno”

12.09.2019
  The cultural season in Kladno culminated the first weekend of September with the traditional Days of the City of Kladno where you could also find the stand of C4C’s Dr. Clown initiative. Here we gave smiles to children and adults, as we have been doing for years in hospitals and children homes all around

Linda, Markéta, Monika – and Zátiší Group: a mentoring story!

05.09.2019
Linda and Markéta are two girls from the Žatec children’s home, Monika is their C4C mentor and Zátiší Group is one of the largest catering companies in the country. This is the story of their cooperation… We could also call this “From mentoring to meddling” because that’s what it really takes to successfully mentor and