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17.10.2011 Two great Kladno natives are partnering up to bring smiles to hospitalized children nation-wide! Few people know that the city of Kladno is home to one of the biggest LEGO assembly and packing plants in the world and it is here that the company sports Europe’s biggest automated warehouse. In Kladno, one of only three European LEGO production facilities,

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01.08.2011 Organized by C4C in cooperation with Kladno City Hall, the three day long Dr. Clown Amusement Fair, with fun and breathtaking rides and lots of attractions for young and old, served as the launching platform for C4C’s new Dr. Clown city bus. With its catchy, larger than life graphics, the bus is a real head-turner indeed. It will be plowing Kladno’s streets to

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11.7.2011 If you’ve ever visited C4C’s offices and volunteer centernear Kladno, you probably couldn’t help but notice the large grassy knoll in front of our office building. Come summer, it has served during breaks as a football/sports field for our wildly-willing resident volunteers and staff alike. Maintaining it, though, has been a mixed bag in the past, as we had only a small

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30.06.2011 A heartfelt good-bye to Vaclav (Vasek) Cermak. After 7 extremely busy and fruitful years, Vaclav Cermak, C4C’s ROBIN HOOD program manager, is leaving C4C to pursue a career as a translator. He will be missed! Many of our friends and sponsors have come to know Vaclav’s friendly voice when contacting C4C over our office switchboard. In more ways than one, Vaclav was C4C’s face

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04.05.2011 Children from local orphanages, participating in C4C’s Springboard to Life educational initiative, impress their audience with displays of their newly acquired vocational skills. The day couldn’t have been more beautiful, the venue any lovelier and the cause more noble than this: participants of C4C’s Springboard to Life program, mainly socially challenged children from Stredocesky Krai orphanages, gave a sampling of their

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15.03.2011 Kladno hosts meeting of partners and friends of Dr. Clown  –  since 1999 the original and first Hospital Clown program in the Czech Republic! Fans and supporters of C4C‘s Dr. Clown initiative, which delivers serious doses of therapeutic smiles to ailing children in the Kladno hospital, recently got together to celebrate their involvement and support for the popular program! Kladno’s trendy Shock

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19.02.2011 Designed by popular children’s artist Romana Andelova (www.angelart.cz), the newly  installed Dr. Clown floor games are already a hit with resident children in hospitals in the greater Prague area. “Installing these colorful floor games is just another step towards having a round-the-clock presence of Dr. Clown in the hospitals our clowns visit”, comments Rafal

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23.12.2010 As the 2010 Touring Car racing season rings out, Hans Christian Zink, one of C4C’s founding members, successfully defends his title as European Champion in the DMV Touring Car Championship – and proudly displays the C4C logo and website on his car and racing outfit – again! (Again? Click here to read why) When it comes to cars and driving, only one word aptly describes this

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20.12.2010 As a last minute surprise, thousands of high quality shoes for children and teenagers arrive in C4C’s storage facility! Secured by C4C, these shoes are a surprise Christmas gift for thousands of needy children in the Czech Republic and beyond. With a fair market value price tag approaching 10 million CZK, the shoes will

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11.10.2010 Living up to his reputation as a true champion of the poor and downtrodden, our folk hero showed himself strong again on behalf of orphans and other socially disadvantaged kids in dire need of a helping hand… C4C’s Robin Hood team returned to base recently, after an extremely successful one week aid trip to

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